Korean slang profile
호모마스크쿠스
homomaseukeukuseu
A term for people or humanity for whom wearing masks has become part of everyday life.
A term for people or humanity for whom wearing masks has become part of everyday life.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Dec 3, 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
사진 속 모두가 마스크를 쓴 모습에서 호모마스크쿠스라는 표현이 떠올랐다.
Seeing everyone wearing masks in the photo brought the expression 호모마스크쿠스 to mind.
02Documented history
- December 2020영남일보 analyzed mask-related neologisms and introduced it as referring to humanity living with everyday mask wearing.[1]
03Origin & word formation
영남일보’s column observing new expressions explains it as showing human life with habitual mask wearing. The appearance date in the column’s corpus is not necessarily the expression’s birth date. The first user could not be identified.
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.
- [우리말과 한국문학] 신조어를 통해 본 코로나 한국 (영남일보)Published Dec 3, 2020Original source checked Nov 13, 2026