Korean slang profile
더블엘족
deobeuleljok
Luxury leisure-sports consumers
A consumer group enjoying leisure sports and purchasing related luxury goods.
- Expanded form
- Leports + LuxuryLeports + Luxury
- Other spellings
- 더블 엘족
- 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
더블엘족을 소개한 기사는 취미와 소비의 관계를 살폈다.
The article introducing 더블엘족 explored hobbies and consumption.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “더블엘족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Named for the two initial Ls in Leports and Luxury. 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, 22쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026