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From Korea + passing, a term coined in 2017, in allusion to the earlier term "Japan passing", coined when US president Bill Clinton visited China without visiting Japan in 1998.
First known use, by meaning
- from 2017 The phenomenon of South Korea being alienated from the international community in the course of discussions on North Korea in 2017.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.