Korean slang profile
완판 스타
wanpan seuta
A celebrity whose influence on consumption is strong enough to sell out products they wear or advertise.
A celebrity whose influence on consumption is strong enough to sell out products they wear or advertise.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- Nov 9, 2010
- 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 배우가 착용한 가방이 매진되자 완판 스타라는 말이 나왔어.
When the bag worn by the actor sold out, people started calling the actor a 완판 스타.
02Documented history
- November 9, 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” included the expression and its definition in the section on words not yet listed in the dictionary.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The National Institute of Korean Language’s “2010년 신어 자료집” directly defines the expression in its section on words not yet listed in the dictionary. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The entry and definition in one collection were directly checked. The older articles cited in the collection were not separately checked, so their dates were not used as the earliest verified date. The collection classifies it as a word not yet listed in the dictionary; this does not mean it first appeared in 2010.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2010년 신어 자료집 — PDF 158쪽 (국립국어원)Published Nov 9, 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026