Korean slang profile
숍캉스족
syopkangseujok
Shoppers escaping the heat indoors
People who enjoy shopping in cool department stores or large stores to escape the heat.
- Expanded form
- shopping + vacance + 족shopping + vacance + 족 (group)
- Other spellings
- 숍캉스
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
한여름의 쇼핑 문화를 설명하며 숍캉스족이라는 말을 소개했다.
숍캉스족 was introduced while explaining midsummer shopping culture.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “숍캉스족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Combines parts of shopping and vacance and adds the group suffix 족. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 37쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026