Korean slang profile
이모메이션
imomeisyeon
Information conveyed with emotion or feeling.
Information conveyed with emotion or feeling.
- Expanded form
- emotion + informationemotion + information
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Nov 9, 2010
- 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
단순한 안내보다 따뜻한 사연을 담은 이모메이션이 눈에 들어왔어.
Information with a warm story caught my eye more than a plain announcement.
02Documented history
- November 9, 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” included the expression and its definition in the new-word section.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” directly defines the expression in its new-word section. It gives its components as “emotion + information”. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The entry and definition in one collection were directly checked. The older articles cited in the collection were not separately checked, so their dates were not used as the earliest verified date.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2010년 신어 자료집 — PDF 51쪽 (국립국어원)Published Nov 9, 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026