얼짱 (eoljjang)

What it means

1. 1.

   Someone exceptionally good-looking — literally the best face in a given group. 몸짱 is the same for physique.

   Early-2000s vintage and now faintly dated; it evokes the era of internet photo rankings it came from.

Examples with translations

• 고등학교 때 얼짱으로 유명했대.

  Apparently she was known as the best-looking girl in school.

• 몸짱 되려고 헬스장 등록했어.

  I've joined a gym to get in shape.

Where it comes from

얼굴 ('face') plus 짱 ('best'). It spread through early-2000s photo-ranking sites, several of which launched careers — a few of Korea's best-known actors were 얼짱 first.

First attested: early 2000s

Other forms

Romanised as:

eoljjang