Korean slang profile
가족살이
gajoksali
Everyday family life
Managing a household or living together as a family.
- 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
소소한 가족살이를 담은 만화를 읽었다.
I read a comic about everyday 가족살이.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “가족살이” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection defines it as running a family household and living as a family. 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