Korean slang profile
가불족
gabuljok
Luxury buyers taking salary advances
People who take their wages in advance to buy luxury goods and similar items.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2010
- 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
소비 문화를 다룬 기사에서 가불족이라는 말을 접했다.
I encountered 가불족 in an article about consumer culture.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “가불족” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection. The collection defines it as people receiving salary in advance to buy luxury goods. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword and definition in the 2010 collection were checked. The original re-quoted articles were not directly opened, so their dates were not used as firstSeen. The original coinage and path of spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2009년 신어 자료집 (국립국어원·전주대학교 한국어문화원)Published 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026