gwarosa
nounEtymology Borrowed from Korean 과로사 (gwarosa). Doublet of guolaosi and karoshi.
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Karoshi; death from overwork.
- 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.2018 November 4, Jake Kwon and Alexandra Field, “South Koreans are working themselves to death. Can they get their lives back?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2025: