Korean slang profile

스킴플레이션

seukimpeulleisyeon

Cutting costs by lowering product ingredient quality or overall quality, effectively raising the price.

This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.

01Examples, with English translations

Example by Julimmal
같은 제품의 재료가 바뀌었다는 설명을 보고 스킴플레이션을 떠올렸다.
Reading that the ingredients of the same product had changed made me think of 스킴플레이션.

January 2024조선비즈 explained the phenomenon of substituting lower-quality ingredients.[1]

The meaning and usage were checked in a source from 조선비즈. Who first used it and when could not be established.

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