Korean slang profile
모파라치
moparachi
Reporting illegal credit-card member recruitment for a reward, or someone who does so.
Reporting illegal credit-card member recruitment for a reward, or someone who does so.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Dec 20, 2013
- 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
불법 카드 모집 신고 제도를 다룬 기사에서 모파라치라는 말을 봤어.
I saw the term 모파라치 in an article about reporting illegal card recruitment.
02Documented history
- 2013-12-20“2013년 신어 자료집”, published by the National Institute of Korean Language, included the headword and definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2013년 신어 자료집” lists the expression and explains its meaning. Its original creator and exact date of creation have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and examples of usage on PDF page 34 were directly compared. This is based on a single collection; the older article texts quoted there were not directly checked. The earliest verified date is the collection’s publication date, given on the copyright page on PDF page 69.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2013년 신어 자료집 — PDF 34쪽 (국립국어원)Published Dec 20, 2013Original source checked Nov 14, 2026