Korean slang profile
격친
gyeokchin
A very close friend or an especially intimate friendship.
A very close friend or an especially intimate friendship.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Dec 20, 2013
- 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
처음 만났는데도 취향이 맞아서 금세 격친이 됐어.
We’d only just met, but our shared tastes quickly made us close friends.
02Documented history
- 2013-12-20“2013년 신어 자료집”, published by the National Institute of Korean Language, included the headword and definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2013년 신어 자료집” lists the expression and explains its meaning. Its original creator and exact date of creation have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and examples of usage on PDF page 17 were directly compared. This is based on a single collection; the older article texts quoted there were not directly checked. The earliest verified date is the collection’s publication date, given on the copyright page on PDF page 69. The collection does not explicitly supply a longer original phrase, so none has been invented.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2013년 신어 자료집 — PDF 17쪽 (국립국어원)Published Dec 20, 2013Original source checked Nov 14, 2026