Korean slang profile
프리건족
peurigeonjok
People reusing discarded resources
People who practice environmental protection and anti-materialism by reusing discarded food, goods, and similar resources.
- Expanded form
- free + vegan + 족free + vegan + group of people
- Other spellings
- 프리거니즘, freegan
- 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
프리건족을 다룬 기사는 버려지는 자원을 줄이려는 생활 방식을 소개했다.
An article about 프리건족 introduced a lifestyle seeking to reduce discarded resources.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “프리건족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It adds 족 to freegan, a blend of parts of free and vegan. The checked material also calls the movement they practice 프리거니즘. 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 explanationHigh
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 9월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026