Korean slang profile
밀크데이
milkeudei
Weekly milk-promotion day
A day designated by relevant groups to encourage milk consumption; the checked material refers to every Wednesday.
- Expanded form
- milk + daymilk + day
- 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
당시 홍보물은 수요일을 밀크데이로 소개했다.
The promotional material of the time introduced Wednesday as 밀크데이.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “밀크데이”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The event name combines milk with day. 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 explanationMedium
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 6월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026