okoge n.— «The young Office Ladies found the city’s gay men so cute, they latched on to their club scene. But now the ‘sticky rice girls’ have come unstuck.…A new phenomenon emerged: the okoge. The closest English translation is...
aerotropolis n.— «This phenomenon is not new, Bender and others say. It even has a name, which was coined by University of North Carolina professor John Kasarda: the aerotropolis. The idea is that major business centers have always...
kiabai n.— «To my embarrassment I have only now learned the native or in-group term for the wandering salespersons in the Seoul subway system, kiabai, even though I was staying in Korea on a long-term basis at the time when the phenomenon...
rosh katan n.— «This is all part of the phenomenon Israelis call Rosh Katan, literally “small head,” an increasing concern with one’s own personal life.» —“Israel: exodus from a land of lost promise” by David...
foot facelift n.— «Dr. Suzanne Levine, who operated on Richards, is known as the “foot facelift doctor.” She performs about 300 foot operations a year, a phenomenon she ascribes to the reluctance of women to accept middle age...
JUBU n.— «“It’s sort of a Jewish phenomenon that so many of us turned to Buddhism,” Katz said. “There’s even a name for Jews who switch. It’s ‘JUBU.’”» —“Ties That Bind: The Shared Pain Of Persecution Led Many South...