Korean slang profile
워킹데이트
wokingdeiteu
Date combined with working in one place
A meeting combining work and a date in the same place.
- Expanded form
- working + dateworking + date
- 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
각자 작업하다가 함께 쉬는 워킹데이트를 했다.
We had a 워킹데이트, working separately and then taking breaks together.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “워킹데이트”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It combines working, referring to work, with date. 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 6월 4주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026