Korean slang profile
도시농부
dosinongbu
Urban farmer
A person who farms in a city.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2006
- 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
옥상 텃밭을 가꾸며 도시농부 생활을 시작했다.
I began life as a 도시농부 by tending a rooftop vegetable garden.
02Documented history
- 2006This source introduced “도시농부” and explained its meaning.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A paper in a 2006 National Institute of Korean Language publication introduces this expression as a compound combining 도시 and 농부. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The meaning and explanation of the components were checked in the official paper. Its subjects were expressions surveyed in 2002–2005; the publication year does not establish their year of origin.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 최근 신어의 조어적 특징 — 새국어생활 제16권 제4호 (국립국어원)Published 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026