Korean slang profile
집콕
jipkok
Staying at home
Staying inside your home.
- Expanded form
- 집에 콕Staying at home
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Oct 15, 2020
- Documented trend period
- 2020~
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
주말엔 집콕하며 쉬었어.
I stayed home and rested over the weekend.
- Quoted from a source
‘집콕’(집에만 콕 박혀 있음)[1]
‘집콕’ (Stuck at home)
English translation by Julimmal.
02Documented history
- October 2020A Jeonbuk Ilbo education article presents 집콕, staying tucked away at home, as COVID-19 slang. It adds that couples spending more time together at home also gave rise to the expression ‘corona divorce.’[1]
03Origin & word formation
Short for 집에만 콕 박혀 있음, staying tucked away at home. A 2020 Jeonbuk Ilbo article explicitly gives this explanation and presents it as COVID-19 slang, but earlier usage has not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The meaning is explicit. Whether the word was already in use before COVID-19 has not been verified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- [NIE] ‘코로나 신조어’를 통해 본 2020 대한민국 (전북일보)Published Oct 15, 2020Original source checked Nov 5, 2026