Korean slang profile
듀크족
dyukeujok
Dual-income couples with children
Dual-income couples having and raising children.
- Expanded form
- Dual Employed With KidsDual Employed With Kids
- Other spellings
- DEWK족, 듀크
- 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
듀크족의 생활을 다룬 글에서 일과 육아의 병행을 이야기했다.
The article about 듀크족 discussed combining work and childcare.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “듀크족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Uses the spoken English initials DEWK and adds 족, a group suffix. 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, 23쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026