Korean slang profile
책팅
chaekting
A meeting to buy and sell books
A term for people meeting around a university to buy and sell books.
- Expanded form
- 책 + meeting책 (book) + meeting
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
중고 전공서를 거래하려고 같은 학과 학생과 책팅을 했다.
I met a student from my department for 책팅 to trade used textbooks.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “책팅”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A blend of 책 with the latter part of meeting. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 55쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026