Korean slang profile
김치투어
gimchitueo
Tour centered on kimchi experiences
A travel product involving visits to kimchi factories, kimchi making, or related explanations.
- Expanded form
- 김치 + tourkimchi + tour
- 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
김치투어에 참여해 김치 담그는 과정을 배웠다.
I joined 김치투어 and learned the process of making kimchi.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “김치투어”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It is a name given to travel centered on kimchi experiences. 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 11월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026