← KoreaAPI · verifiable K-culture data

Hickey 키스 자국

About

A hickey, also known as love bite, is a bruise or bruise-like, dark red or purple mark caused by sucking or biting the skin of a person, usually their neck. While biting may be part of giving a hickey, sucking is sufficient to burst small superficial blood vessels under the skin to produce bruising. A hickey is sometimes used to mark someone as being the target of a partner's romantic affection or as belonging to them. While mostly considered safe, there have been some reports of serious medical complications as a result of receiving hickeys, such as strokes, vascular or nerve damage.

Description via Wikipedia (lead extract) · name cross-verified Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Verified facts

Hickey (키스 자국) — verified Korean artist.

Details

• Also Known As: love bite
• Type: bruise
• Color: dark red or purple
• Cause: sucking or biting the skin
• Label: Hickey
• Definition: 키스를 해서 생긴 멍
• Common Locations: 목, 팔 또는 귓불

Source reconciliation

• Wikidata lists the Korean name as Hickey; KoreaAPI uses 키스 자국 (chosen by source authority).

Independent sources disagreed here — shown, not hidden.

Q&A — what agents ask

Cross-checked by 3 source(s)

• Wikidata — structured open knowledge base · view ↗
• Wikipedia — encyclopedic article · view ↗
• MusicBrainz — open music database · view ↗

Verification history

Verified & tracked since 2026-08-17 · 5 verified snapshots.

Append-only, timestamped — the record of WHEN a fact changed, which a latecomer cannot backfill. Full feed: /changes.json · machine-readable: get_history("artist:hickey").

Verified badge

Embed it — the badge shows this entity’s verification tier + Skill Score and links back here (a “via KoreaAPI” citation):

<a href="https://aiagentlabs.co.kr/artist/hickey.html"><img src="https://aiagentlabs.co.kr/badge/hickey.svg" alt="Verified by KoreaAPI"></a>

[![Verified by KoreaAPI](https://aiagentlabs.co.kr/badge/hickey.svg)](https://aiagentlabs.co.kr/artist/hickey.html)