gwarosa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 과로사 (gwarosa). Doublet of guolaosi and karoshi.

Noun

gwarosa (uncountable)

  1. Karoshi; death from overwork.
    • 2018 November 4, Jake Kwon and Alexandra Field, “South Koreans are working themselves to death. Can they get their lives back?”, in CNN‎[1]:
      It takes Park Hyun-suk, a widow who lost her husband to gwarosa – the Korean word for death by overwork – a long time to find a photo of them together.
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