Korean slang profile
노캉스족
nokangseujok
People not taking a summer trip
People who do not go away on a summer vacation.
- Expanded form
- no + vacance + 족no + vacance + group of people
- 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
멀리 떠나지 않는 노캉스족의 여름나기가 소개됐다.
The article introduced how 노캉스족 spend summer without going far away.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “노캉스족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It combines no, expressing negation, with vacance, meaning vacation, and adds 족. 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 8월 2주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026