Korean slang profile

구알완

gualwan

An abbreviation saying one has subscribed to someone’s YouTube channel and enabled notifications.

Expanded form: 구독 알람 완료구독 알람 완료 (subscription and notifications completed)
Other spellings: —
Earliest source found: May 18, 2021
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
채널 구알완! 다음 영상도 보러 올게.
Subscribed and notifications on! I’ll come back for your next video.

02Documented history

May 2021뉴스1 expanded 구알완 as ‘구독알람완료’ while introducing posts seeking friends in YouTube informal-speech rooms.[1]

03Origin & word formation

Short for ‘구독 알람 완료’ (subscription and notifications completed). A 2021 source from 뉴스1 gives this explanation. Who first used it and when could not be established.

Evidence for the origin explanationMedium

One source explicitly gives this explanation. When it was first used is unknown.

04Sources

Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.

[뭐하고놀Z] 유튜브에서 '평생 친구' 찾는 10대들..“구알완! 반튀 안해요” (뉴스1)Published May 18, 2021Original source checked Nov 13, 2026