Korean slang profile

단톡

dantok

A group chat

A conversation among several people on KakaoTalk, or the group chat room itself.

This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.

01Examples, with English translations

Example by Julimmal
동기들 단톡에 공지 올려 놨어.
I posted the announcement in my classmates' group chat.
Quoted from a source
‘단톡(단체 카카오톡) 친구 모집한다’는 글은 하루에만 200개 이상 올라왔다.[1]
More than 200 posts titled ‘Recruiting friends for 단톡 (Group Kakao Talk)’ were posted in one day.
English translation by Julimmal.

January 2014More than 200 posts titled ‘Recruiting friends for 단톡 (Group Kakao Talk)’ were posted in one day.[1]
November 2016OhmyNews: “When I opened it, it was ‘단톡,’ a group of friends from a club I had worked with 10 years ago.”[2]

Short for “단체 카카오톡.” The 2014 source from Dong-A Ilbo explicitly gives this explanation. Who first used it and when have not been verified.

Evidence for the origin explanationHigh

The explanation is explicit in the sources, and at least two sources use the same meaning. When it was first used is unknown.

Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.