Korean slang profile
스마트폰포비아
seumateuponpobia
Difficulty or fear of using smartphones because their functions are unfamiliar.
Difficulty or fear of using smartphones because their functions are unfamiliar.
- Expanded form
- smartphone + phobiasmartphone + phobia
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Nov 9, 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
처음에는 스마트폰포비아가 있었지만 천천히 기능을 익혔어.
I had 스마트폰포비아 at first, but I gradually learned the features.
02Documented history
- November 9, 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” included the expression and its definition in the new-word section.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” directly defines the expression in its new-word section. It gives its components as “smartphone + phobia”. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The entry and definition in one collection were directly checked. The older articles cited in the collection were not separately checked, so their dates were not used as the earliest verified date.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2010년 신어 자료집 — PDF 42쪽 (국립국어원)Published Nov 9, 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026