Korean slang profile
헤드페인팅
hedeupeinting
Painting pictures on the head
Painting pictures or patterns on the head, or the resulting pictures.
- Expanded form
- head paintinghead painting
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
응원 문화를 다룬 글에 헤드페인팅을 한 관중이 등장했다.
An article about cheering culture featured spectators with 헤드페인팅.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “헤드페인팅”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Borrowed from the English expression meaning painting pictures on the head. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 67쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026