Korean slang profile
제이팝
jeipap
Japanese pop music
Japanese popular music.
- Expanded form
- Japanese popJapanese pop
- Other spellings
- J팝, J-pop
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- 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
라디오에서 익숙한 제이팝 노래가 흘러나왔다.
A familiar J-pop song came on the radio.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “제이팝” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection presents a form using J, the initial of Japanese, and equates it with 재퍼니즈팝. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026