What does the orange family mean?

The word "orange" refers to young people in their twenties. Their parents lived in Gangnam (a rich area in South Korea) and lived a luxurious life in the early 1990s. This word mocks the phenomenon that young people take rich pocket money from rich parents, consume brand-name products everywhere and drive expensive private cars. Used to be synonymous with advanced consumption.

In particular, oranges, a consumer imported car, can be called a huge luxury, attracting social criticism. They drive imported cars to and from school, dating, shopping and so on. This has something to do with the social atmosphere in which private cars became a new means to show off their wealth in the early 1990s when the domestic automobile market was officially launched. The origin of the word orange is uncertain. There is a saying that oranges are imported fruits, similar to their behavior of consuming foreign famous brands.

Another argument is also very convincing: when they drive expensive imported cars to attract women in the street, they usually bring oranges with them. During the period of 65438+early 1990s, the original orange people mainly lived in Zhengou Pavilion Cave (Cave is a local administrative division unit in Korea). With their search for new culture, they gathered in the generation of HTC, and Picasso Street, a densely populated area of HTC's high-end cafes, began to appear. This street introduces1the party culture of foreigners in the second half of the 1990s.

However, in the Asian financial crisis of 1997 IMF, the orange family became the object of social anger and criticism and began to disappear gradually. Their magnificent return came after South Korea quickly and successfully got rid of the financial crisis. The original orange family went abroad to study during the financial crisis, and turned into high-income experts and returned to the embrace of the motherland when South Korea began to get rid of the financial crisis.