Korean slang profile
강추
gangchu
Enthusiastic recommendation
An expression used to recommend something very enthusiastically.
- Expanded form
- 강력 추천strong recommendation
- 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
이 책은 짧은 이야기를 좋아하는 사람에게 강추야.
This book is a 강추 for anyone who likes short stories.
02Documented history
- 2004This source introduced “강추” and explained its meaning.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A 2004 paper in a 국립국어연구원 publication directly analyzes it as a shortened form of 강력 추천. A 2006 Saenggeul Saenggeul article gives the same explanation. Its first user has not been identified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The body of the 2006 article was directly checked through the web tool, but automated local access was blocked and publication-date metadata could not be checked, so that article’s date field was left blank. firstSeen follows the directly opened 2004 paper.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어와 표준어 — 새국어생활14권1호 (국립국어연구원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026
- [생글생글은 청소년 경제교과서] 엄마는 한경ㆍ아들은 생글 “우린 경제박사” (한국경제 생글생글)Original source checked Nov 14, 2026