Korean slang profile
유령진동증후군
yuryeongjindongjeunghugun
Experience of apparent phone vibrations or ringing
A figurative expression for the experience of feeling a phone’s vibration or ringtone even when it is not actually ringing.
- Expanded form
- phantom vibration syndromephantom vibration syndrome
- 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
휴대전화가 울린 줄 알고 확인한 경험을 유령진동증후군에 빗댔다.
I compared the experience of checking a phone I thought had rung to 유령진동증후군.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “유령진동증후군”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It translates an English expression. The checked new-word material likens experiences of false phone vibrations or ringing to a medical condition. 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 8월 4주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026