Korean slang profile
사친직
sachinjik
An employee at the boss’s friend’s firm
Short for an employee working at the boss’s friend’s company.
- Expanded form
- 사장 친구의 회사에 다니는 직원사장 친구의 회사에 다니는 직원 (an employee at the boss’s friend’s company)
- Other spellings
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- 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
기사에서는 사친직이라는 말로 직장 내 인맥 문제를 짚었다.
The article used 사친직 to examine workplace connections.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “사친직” 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 explains it as a shortened form of that description. 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