Korean slang profile
하우스푸어
hauseupueo
A person or household with little financial breathing room because a large share of income goes toward buying and maintaining a home.
A person or household with little financial breathing room because a large share of income goes toward buying and maintaining a home.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2020
- 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
집이 있어도 주거비 부담이 크면 하우스푸어가 될 수 있다.
Even homeowners can become house-poor if housing costs are high.
02Documented history
- December 2020비즈워치 explained it as an existing housing-cost burden expression, comparing it with 렌트푸어.[1]
03Origin & word formation
비즈워치 introduces it as people spending most of their income to afford housing. The article compares it with an existing expression, so this does not assert that the term arose in 2020. The first user and time could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation in the body of the source was checked, but the first user could not be identified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- [알쓸부잡]'청무피사·배배테크' 자고나면 생기는 '부동산 신조어' (비즈워치)Published Dec 30, 2020Original source checked Nov 13, 2026