Korean slang profile
드링크플레이션
deuringkeupeulleisyeon
In this source, reducing beer’s alcohol content without lowering its price.
In this source, reducing beer’s alcohol content without lowering its price.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Jun 20, 2023
- 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
이 기사에서는 맥주 도수를 낮춘 일을 드링크플레이션이라고 부르네.
This article calls lowering beer’s alcohol content ‘drinkflation’.
02Documented history
- 2023-06-20The 매일경제 source used the expression ‘드링크플레이션’.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The article introduces British brewers’ reductions in alcohol content under this term. The other usage covering general beverage price rises was not verified in this evidence. Who first used it and when could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationLow
Usage was checked in the source, but the specific process of coining the expression and its first use could not be established.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 맥주가 밍밍, 맛이 왜 이러지?...고물가 못견디고 알콜부터 줄였다 (매일경제)Published Jun 20, 2023Original source checked Nov 13, 2026