Korean slang profile
트롤링
teurolling
Deliberately disrupting and provoking others online to anger them or elicit reactions.
Deliberately disrupting and provoking others online to anger them or elicit reactions.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Not verified
- 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
협동 게임을 일부러 방해하는 트롤링 때문에 진행이 끊겼어.
Trolling that deliberately disrupted the cooperative game interrupted our progress.
02Documented history
- Examined sourceThe 미리네 media-education portal’s learning-topic dictionary explained online provocation and disruption.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The 미리네 media-education portal explains it as deliberately provoking responses and disrupting activities such as games. Its references are earlier materials, but those original texts were not checked; the first usage time could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationLow
The description of the behavior in public educational material was checked, but how the English expression developed could not be established.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 학습주제사전: 트롤링 (미리네 미디어교육포털)Original source checked Nov 13, 2026