Korean slang profile
Rec족
recjok
People who document daily life on video
People who record and present their everyday lives through video rather than photographs.
- Expanded form
- recording + 족recording + group of people
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Aug 17, 2006
- 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
여행을 동영상으로 남기는 Rec족의 이야기를 읽었다.
I read about Rec족 who record their travels on video.
02Documented history
- 2006-08-17This source introduced “Rec족” and explained its meaning.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A 2006 Joongdo Ilbo article introduces Rec족 as taking the beginning of an English word meaning recording. It describes a shift from presenting daily life in photographs to presenting it in videos. Its first user has not been identified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The article spells the English word Recoding but explicitly explains it as recording. The expansion uses recording, meaning to record, while retaining a note of the spelling difference from the source.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 아리송한10대 외계어 삐삐 숫자전송이 시초 (중도일보)Published Aug 17, 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026