Korean slang profile
메디쿠킹
medikuking
Cooking tailored to health or nutrition
A term formerly used for preparing food with a person’s health or nutritional condition in mind.
- Expanded form
- medical + cookingmedical + cooking
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
메디쿠킹 강좌에서는 식재료와 영양을 함께 살폈다.
The 메디쿠킹 class examined ingredients together with nutrition.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “메디쿠킹”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It combines 메디, shortened from medical, with cooking. The checked material describes training related to tailored cooking, including nutritious meals. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 12월 4주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026