Korean slang profile
비아이비
biaibi
A securities counter inside a bank
An English abbreviation for providing a securities-service counter inside a bank branch.
- Expanded form
- Branch In BranchBranch In Branch
- Other spellings
- BIB
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- 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
은행과 증권 업무를 함께 볼 수 있는 비아이비 창구를 찾았다.
I looked for a 비아이비 counter handling both banking and securities business.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “비아이비” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection gives BIB’s expanded English initials and defines it as a securities-service counter within a bank. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026