Korean slang profile
모자방
mojabang
Space for mothers and young children
A space in a library, performance venue, or similar place with nursing, play, or other facilities for mothers and young children.
- Expanded form
- 모자 + 방mother and child + room
- 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
도서관 안내도에서 모자방의 위치를 찾아봤다.
I looked for 모자방 on the library’s floor plan.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “모자방”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It adds 방, meaning a space or room, to 모자, meaning mother and child. 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 9월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026