Korean slang profile
나포
napo
Planning without taking action
An English abbreviation critically describing making plans without acting on them.
- Expanded form
- No Action Plan OnlyNo Action Plan Only
- Other spellings
- NAPO
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- 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
일정표만 만들지 말고 나포에서 벗어나 하나씩 실행하자.
Let’s stop making only schedules, escape 나포, and put things into action one by one.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “나포” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection presents a form made from the initials of No Action Plan Only. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026