Korean slang profile
글로벌쇼핑족
geulrobeolsyopingjok
People traveling abroad mainly to shop
People who travel abroad mainly to shop.
- Expanded form
- global shopping + 족global shopping + group of people
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
글로벌쇼핑족을 위한 여행 상품이 기사에 소개됐다.
The article introduced travel packages for 글로벌쇼핑족.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “글로벌쇼핑족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It names a consumption pattern of crossing national borders to buy things. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 6월 2주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026