Korean slang profile
괴식
goesik
Unusual, unfamiliar food combinations
Food that seems unfamiliar because of its unusual preparation or combination of ingredients.
- 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
생각하지 못한 재료 조합을 보고 친구가 괴식 같다고 했다.
Seeing an unexpected ingredient combination, my friend said it looked like 괴식.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “괴식” 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 food made in an unusual way. The label is not an objective judgment of safety or taste. 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