English citations of selca

Noun: "(chiefly South Korean pop culture fandom slang) a selfie"

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  • 2011, Claire Yeoh, "Super Treat For Super Fans", Here, March - April 2011, page 45:
    There was plenty of fan service, with members shaking hands with the fans and taking selcas with fans' cameras.
  • 2015, "Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37:
    The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.
  • 2017, Graham Holliday, Eating Korea: Reports on a Culinary Renaissance, unnumbered page:
    School girls took selfies, or selcas (셀카), as Koreans call them, at a bus stop on an eightlane highway.
  • 2017, Dinna Chan Vasquez, "Let me take a selfie", BusinessMirror, 19 August 2016, page A10:
    My daughter and her friends take the best selcas and that's even before they use filters.
  • 2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, unnumbered page:
    Jimin's selca (selfie) obsession provides ARMY with a wealth of glorious photos.
  • 2019, Bina Lee, K-POP A To Z: The Definitive K-Pop Encyclopedia, unnumbered page:
    Koreans love taking selcas and uploading them onto their social media accounts.
  • 2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page (image caption):
    Fans take selcas with cutouts of BTS wearing traditional Korean garb—hanbok—at an exhibit of the 2018 Gangnam Festival.