Korean slang profile
나방
nabang
A solo apartment-rights speculator
An individual investor acting alone to profit from reselling apartment pre-sale rights.
- Expanded form
- 나홀로 떴다방나홀로 떴다방 (a solo speculative pre-sale-rights trader)
- Other spellings
- 나홀로 떴다방, 나홀로방
- 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
당시 부동산 기사에는 개인 투자자를 나방이라고 부르는 용례가 있다.
Real-estate articles of the time include examples calling individual investors 나방.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “나방”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Short for 나홀로 떴다방. The source also gives 나홀로방 with the same meaning. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
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, 20쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026