Korean slang profile
렌트푸어
renteupueo
A person or household with little financial breathing room because of housing rental costs such as jeonse deposits.
A person or household with little financial breathing room because of housing rental costs such as jeonse deposits.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2020
- 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
주거비 부담이 커지면서 렌트푸어라는 표현이 실감 났다.
As housing costs grew burdensome, the expression 렌트푸어 felt real.
02Documented history
- December 2020비즈워치 explained it as an expression for the living-cost burden caused by rising jeonse deposits.[1]
03Origin & word formation
비즈워치 introduced it as reflecting the difficulty of affording rising jeonse deposits. This evidence does not establish the specific first coining process or user.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation in the body of the source was checked, but the first user could not be identified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- [알쓸부잡]'청무피사·배배테크' 자고나면 생기는 '부동산 신조어' (비즈워치)Published Dec 30, 2020Original source checked Nov 13, 2026