Korean slang profile
ARS
ars
Automatic telephone-response system
An abbreviation for an automatic response system that plays recorded guidance and processes responses when someone calls.
- Expanded form
- Automatic Response SystemAutomatic Response System
- Other spellings
- 에이알에스
- Earliest source found
- Jan 6, 2006
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
ARS 안내를 듣고 필요한 번호를 눌렀다.
I listened to the ARS instructions and pressed the number I needed.
02Documented history
- 2006-01-06This source introduced “ARS” and explained its meaning.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A patent published in 2006 gives ARS’s English expansion and explains voice guidance and automatic response processing. An Electronic Times article from the same year also pairs ARS with the Korean term for automatic response system. Its first user has not been identified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The patent provides evidence of the term and its operating context. It does not mean that this patent first invented ARS itself.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- KR20060000861A 긴급 메시지 전송 및 수신 확인 시스템 (대한민국 공개특허 / Google Patents)Published Jan 6, 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026
- 한맥소프트웨어,똑똑한 콜센터 개발 (전자신문)Published May 8, 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026