Korean slang profile
케이티엑스풀족
keitiekseupuljok
Job seekers who travel together on KTX trains from regional areas to Seoul for job interviews and similar purposes.
Job seekers who travel together on KTX trains from regional areas to Seoul for job interviews and similar purposes.
- Expanded form
- KTX + pool + 족KTX + pool + 족 (group)
- 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
면접 일정이 같은 케이티엑스풀족이 함께 이동했어.
케이티엑스풀족 with interviews on the same day traveled together.
02Documented history
- November 9, 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” included the expression and its definition in the section on words not yet listed in the dictionary.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” directly defines the expression in its section on words not yet listed in the dictionary. It gives its components as “KTX + pool + 족”. 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. The collection classifies it as a word not yet listed in the dictionary; this does not mean it first appeared in 2010.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2010년 신어 자료집 — PDF 200쪽 (국립국어원)Published Nov 9, 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026