Korean slang profile
모바일 세대
mobail sedae
Generation organizing life by mobile phone
An expression of the time for a generation handling various everyday tasks mainly through mobile phone handsets.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 31, 2000
- 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
기사는 모바일 세대의 인터넷 이용 방식을 다뤘다.
The article covered how 모바일 세대 used the internet.
02Documented history
- 2000The 국립국어연구원’s 『2000년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “모바일 세대”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The 국립국어연구원’s 『2000년 신어』 gives the meaning and contemporary use of “모바일 세대”. Its inclusion in the survey does not mean it was first created in 2000. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The OCR reading 모바일 새대 was compared with 모바일 세대 in the image of original page 110. A specific range of birth years was not verified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2000년 신어, 본문 101쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 31, 2000Original source checked Nov 15, 2026