Korean slang profile
명품계
myeongpumgye
A savings group for luxury purchases
A rotating savings group formed to raise money for expensive branded goods.
- Expanded form
- 명품 + 계명품 (luxury branded goods) + 계 (a rotating savings group)
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
소비 문화를 다룬 기사는 명품계를 사례로 들었다.
The article on consumer culture used 명품계 as an example.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “명품계”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Names a savings group by its purpose of raising money to buy goods. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 28쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026