Korean slang profile
팬픽
paenpik
Fan-written imagined fiction
An imagined story or novel featuring fans’ favorite celebrities, athletes, or similar figures as characters.
- Expanded form
- fan + fictionfan + fiction
- Other spellings
- 팬픽션, fanfic
- 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
친구는 자신이 쓴 팬픽의 설정을 설명해 줬다.
My friend explained the setting of their own 팬픽.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “팬픽”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A blend of the beginnings of fan and fiction. 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, 63쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026