Korean slang profile
퇴출
toechul
Crisis-era business and job exits
A word widely used during the foreign-exchange crisis for being pushed out of or removed from a company or workplace.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Nov 6, 1998
- 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
그 시기의 신문에는 기업 퇴출 소식이 자주 등장했다.
Newspapers of that period often reported corporate 퇴출.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
서울신문 in 1998 introduces it as a subject of national concern at the time. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationLow
Contemporary usage context was checked, but there is no etymological explanation. This does not cover all ordinary meanings.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 달라진 사회상(IMF체제 1년:2) (서울신문)Published Nov 6, 1998Original source checked Nov 15, 2026