Where does “영혼 보내기” come from?

영혼 보내기 (Korean) comes from Korean 영혼 — soul.

영혼 보내기 (Korean): buying tickets for a movie, concert, or other cultural venue without actually attending, because one supports the social cause behind it despite not being interested on a personal level

Definitions

  1. buying tickets for a movie, concert, or other cultural venue without actually attending, because one supports the social cause behind it despite not being interested on a personal level

Ancestry of “영혼 보내기”, step by step

영혼 보내기 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 영혼

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean영혼soul

via Korean 보내다

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean보내다to send, to dispatch; to spend time
Every word from Korean 영혼