386 세대

Korean

Etymology

Coined in the 1990s, originally to refer to people in their thirties (3) who went to university in the 1980s (8) and were born in the 1960s (6), influenced by the microprocessor i386. The first number is sometimes revised according to the current age of the generation (486세대, 586세대, etc.), but more commonly the original formulation is preserved.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰa̠mpʰa̠ʎʎuk̚ sʰe̞(ː)dɛ] ~ [sʰa̠mpʰa̠ʎʎuk̚ sʰe̞(ː)de̞]
Phonetic hangul: [삼팔륙 세(ː)대/삼팔륙 세(ː)데]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	sampallyuk sedae
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	sampallyug sedae
McCune–Reischauer^?	samp'allyuk sedae
Yale Romanization^?	samphallyuk sēytay

Noun

386 세대 • (samp'allyuksedae)

386 Generation (those born in the 1960s, the politically and economically dominant age cohort in South Korea in the early twenty-first century)