page_title: Doenjang Girl
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Doenjang Girl / References
caption_attribution_description: Doenjang jjigae
context_page_description: Doenjang girl or doenjang woman is a satirical expression used in South Korea to describe certain women "for their propensity to scrimp on essentials so they can over-spend on conspicuous luxuries". These girls and young women are addicted to luxury and vanity. The Hangul spelling is 된장녀.
  Doenjang is Korean fermented soybean paste. The idea behind the phrase is that such a girl will eat a cheap meal in order to buy an expensive latte at Starbucks. The expression became popular on the Internet in South Korea in the early 2000s. Cartoons satirising Doenjang Girls became famous on the Internet from 2005.
  A large part of the song "Gangnam Style" is a parody of this stereotype.
context_section_description: Max Fisher (August 23, 2012). "Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  실사로 보는… '이것이 된장녀의 하루!' The Hanguk 2007/02/13
  Doenjang (in Korean)
  '된장녀' 사회학 Archived 2012-07-16 at Archive.today
  스타벅스와 '된장녀' Archived January 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine 서울신문
  여성시대를 거꾸로 예언한 두 화가전 Archived January 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
caption: Doenjang jjigae is one of the cheapest meals in South Korea
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