Korean slang profile
다큐예능
dakyuyeneung
Documentary-style entertainment
Entertainment showing participants’ actual activities rather than comic setups or personal tricks.
- Expanded form
- 다큐멘터리 + 예능다큐멘터리 (documentary) + 예능 (entertainment)
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2010
- 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
개인기보다 연습 과정을 보여주는 다큐예능이 인상적이었다.
The 다큐예능 showing practice rather than personal tricks impressed me.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “다큐예능” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection. The collection presents a name incorporating documentary and defines entertainment reducing production intervention and showing actual processes. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword and definition in the 2010 collection were checked. The original re-quoted articles were not directly opened, so their dates were not used as firstSeen. The original coinage and path of spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2009년 신어 자료집 (국립국어원·전주대학교 한국어문화원)Published 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026