Korean slang profile
찐우정
jjinujeong
An emphatic term for true friendship.
An emphatic term for true friendship.
- Expanded form
- 진정한 우정진정한 우정 (true friendship)
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Dec 10, 2019
- 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
어려운 때에도 서로 돕는 모습을 보며 찐우정이라고 느꼈다.
Seeing them help each other in hard times felt like 찐우정.
02Documented history
- December 2019The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2019 new-word survey report includes a separate headword and explanation.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2019 new-word survey report explains this expression’s meaning and usage. Who created it and when it was first used could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The report's headword, definition, and context were compared directly. Dates of older articles it cites were not copied without checking the originals. The evidence date is the publication date in the report's colophon.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2019년 신어 조사 (국립국어원)Published Dec 10, 2019Original source checked Nov 14, 2026