Korean slang profile
곱창마차
gopchangmacha
Street-food tent specializing in intestines
A street-food tent specializing in grilled intestines or intestine hotpot.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2006
- 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
퇴근길에 곱창마차에서 친구를 만났다.
I met a friend at a 곱창마차 on my way home from work.
02Documented history
- 2006This source introduced “곱창마차” and explained its meaning.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A paper in a 2006 National Institute of Korean Language publication analyzes it as a word made by replacing a component of 포장마차. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The meaning and explanation of the components were checked in the official paper. Its subjects were expressions surveyed in 2002–2005; the publication year does not establish their year of origin.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 최근 신어의 조어적 특징 — 새국어생활 제16권 제4호 (국립국어원)Published 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026