Korean slang profile
헤라족
herajok
Educated middle-aged women actively planning new lives
A term formerly used for highly educated middle-aged women who actively plan new lives beyond their roles as homemakers.
- Expanded form
- Housewives, Educated, Reengaging, ActiveHousewives, Educated, Reengaging, Active
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
헤라족의 이야기에는 배움을 이어 가며 새 일을 찾는 경험이 담겼다.
Stories of 헤라족 included experiences of continuing to learn and finding new work.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “헤라족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It forms HERA from English words conveying homemakers, higher education, life redesign, and initiative. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 6월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026