Korean slang profile
멀티즌
meoltijeun
Multimedia user
A person using sound, video, and other multimedia beyond communications centered on text or still images.
- Expanded form
- multimedia + citizenmultimedia + citizen
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 28, 2001
- 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
멀티즌들이 동영상으로 정보를 주고받았다.
멀티즌 exchanged information through video.
02Documented history
- 2001The 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “멀티즌”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The source gives the abbreviated structure of “multimedia + citizen” and the meaning of “멀티즌” together. This was checked in the body of the 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The definitions in the body of the 2001 collection were compared. The collection also includes previously used words absent from dictionaries. The original older articles re-quoted there were not separately opened, and neither the first use date nor the extent of spread at the time was verified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2001년 신어 — 신어 목록 104쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 28, 2001Original source checked Nov 15, 2026