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🇰🇷 South Korea

🗂️인덱스 관계

/in-dek-seu-gwan-gye/

인덱스 관계, read as in-dek-seu gwan-gye, means “Index Relationships” or “Buddies with a Purpose”: a Korean trend term for sorting and managing relationships by context, purpose, or platform, like work friends, hobby friends, Instagram friends, and close offline friends.
인덱스 관계 meaning visual explanation

Examples

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  • "I’m not cold to people; I just keep different index relationships for work, hobbies, and close friends."
  • "We only talk about concerts, but that fandom index relationship is actually pretty comfortable."
🌀 Multiple origins🌀 MultipleFirst seen 2022

Origin · Source

The phrase spread as one of the 《Trend Korea 2023》 keywords, introduced in English as “Buddies with a Purpose: Index Relationships.” It describes how social media, messenger groups, fandom spaces, workplaces, and offline circles create many relationship lanes that people sort by purpose rather than treating every connection with the same emotional density. The exact first use is unclear, so 2022 is used because the 2023 trend book cycle began then.

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