Korean slang profile
비비비 서비스
bibibi seobiseu
Mobile-phone interpretation service
A service providing interpretation by mobile phone to foreign tourists and others.
- Expanded form
- Before Babel Brigade + serviceBefore Babel Brigade + service
- Other spellings
- BBB서비스
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
옛 관광 안내 자료는 비비비 서비스를 통한 통역 방법을 설명했다.
Old tourism guidance explained how to obtain interpretation through 비비비 서비스.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “비비비 서비스”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Named by pronouncing the English name’s initials BBB. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 33쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026