Korean slang profile
얼음방
eoleumbang
An ice-cooled room
A room cooled using ice or similar means.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- 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
찜질방에서 잠깐 얼음방에 들어가 더위를 식혔다.
At the jjimjilbang, I briefly entered the 얼음방 to cool off.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “얼음방” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection defines it as a room cooled by adding ice and says it is mainly found at jjimjilbang bathhouses. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026