Korean slang profile
코시
kosi
Kindness, order, cleanliness, etiquette
A compact expression urging people to practice kindness, order, cleanliness, and etiquette together.
- Expanded form
- Kind, Order, Clean, ÉtiquetteKind, Order, Clean, Étiquette
- Other spellings
- KOCE
- 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
학급 게시판에 코시의 네 가지 실천 항목을 적었다.
I wrote 코시’s four action points on the classroom board.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “코시” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection gives KOCE, combining initials of words corresponding to those four values. 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