Korean slang profile
리스족
riseujok
People renting rather than buying
People who rent things that are expensive or troublesome to maintain instead of buying them.
- Expanded form
- lease + 족lease + 족 (group)
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2010
- 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
가끔 쓰는 물건은 빌리는 편이 나아 리스족이 됐다.
Renting things I use only occasionally made me 리스족.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “리스족” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection. The collection defines people renting expensive products or household goods difficult to maintain. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword and definition in the 2010 collection were checked. The original re-quoted articles were not directly opened, so their dates were not used as firstSeen. The original coinage and path of spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2009년 신어 자료집 (국립국어원·전주대학교 한국어문화원)Published 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026