Korean slang profile
이노스텔
inoseutel
Seoul-supported accommodation brand
The brand name of moderately priced accommodation supported by Seoul for foreign tourists at the time.
- Expanded form
- innovation + hostelinnovation + hostel
- Other spellings
- Innostel
- 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
옛 관광 안내 자료에서 이노스텔이라는 숙박 시설 브랜드를 찾았다.
I found the accommodation brand 이노스텔 in old tourism material.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “이노스텔”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The name combines parts of innovation, meaning innovation, and hostel, meaning accommodation. 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 9월 2주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026