sasaeng
noun
sasaeng is a noun meaning “An extremely obsessive K-pop fan whose fixation on an idol is unhealthy and intrusive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-S-A-E-N-G, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sasaeng is sasaengs.
What does sasaeng mean?
noun
- 1
An extremely obsessive K-pop fan whose fixation on an idol is unhealthy and intrusive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sasaeng?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-sasaeng.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sasaeng
- sasaengs plural
- saseng
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sasaeng?
Sasaeng appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does sasaeng come from?
Borrowed from Korean 사생팬 (sasaengpaen), from 사생(私生) (sasaeng, “private life”) + 팬 (paen, “fan”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).