Korean slang profile
수면마케팅
sumyeonmaketing
Marketing products presented as sleep aids
Marketing activity selling products presented as helping people sleep well.
- Expanded form
- 수면 + marketingsleep + marketing
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
매장의 침구와 조명 전시는 수면마케팅의 사례로 소개됐다.
The store’s bedding and lighting display was introduced as an example of 수면마케팅.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “수면마케팅”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It describes selling products to meet sleep-related consumer demand. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 10월 1주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026