Korean slang profile
트러킹
teureoking
Group travel in a camping-adapted truck
A group trip undertaken in a truck modified for camping.
- Expanded form
- truckingtrucking
- 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
여행자는 트러킹에서 만난 동료들과 야영한 이야기를 들려줬다.
The traveler recounted camping with companions met during 트러킹.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “트러킹”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It renders an English expression describing group travel using a truck. 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 9월 1주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026