Korean slang profile
휴폐업
hyupyeeop
Business suspension and closure
A collective term for temporarily suspending business and permanently closing it.
- Expanded form
- 휴업 + 폐업휴업 + 폐업 (temporary suspension + closure of business)
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 31, 2000
- 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
자료에서 업소의 휴폐업 현황을 살펴봤다.
I examined the state of businesses’ 휴폐업 in the materials.
02Documented history
- 2000The 국립국어연구원’s 『2000년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “휴폐업”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2000년 신어』. The expanded form or corresponding name given by the collection is “휴업 + 폐업 (temporary suspension + closure of business)”. The first coiner and actual first use have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The OCR reading 휴페업 was compared with 휴폐업 in the image of original page 397. This is a combined shortening encompassing suspension and closure; ordinary compound words were not generally treated as abbreviations.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2000년 신어, 본문 388쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 31, 2000Original source checked Nov 15, 2026