Korean slang profile
와인맘족
wainmamjok
Women cultivating their own lives after childrearing
A term formerly used for women in their fifties and sixties who turn their attention from the burden of childrearing to cultivating their own lives and later years.
- Expanded form
- Well Integrated New Elder + 맘 + 족Well Integrated New Elder + mom + group of people
- Other spellings
- 와인 맘족
- 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
와인맘족을 위한 프로그램에서는 여행과 배움의 기회를 소개했다.
A program for 와인맘족 introduced opportunities for travel and learning.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “와인맘족”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This generation label combines WINE, the initials of Well Integrated New Elder, with a word meaning mother. It is distinguished from the sense of mothers who enjoy wine. 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 explanationHigh
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 6월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026