힐링 (hilling)

What it means

1. 1.

   Restorative rest: a quiet café, a walk, a slow television programme. The English word borrowed and narrowed to mean recovering from ordinary exhaustion rather than from illness.

   힐링 영화 and 힐링 예능 are recognised genres — media made specifically to be undemanding.

Examples with translations

• 바다 보니까 힐링된다.

  Looking at the sea is restoring me.

• 주말엔 힐링이 필요해.

  I need the weekend to recover.

Where it comes from

From English 'healing', which took off as a buzzword around 2012 in reaction to the exhaustion 헬조선 names. The two words belong to the same conversation from opposite ends.

First attested: around 2012

Other forms

Romanised as:

hilling