Korean slang profile
비디오버스
bidiobeoseu
A mobile videotape-rental bus
A mobile rental vehicle carrying videotapes to lend out.
- Expanded form
- video busvideo bus
- Other spellings
- —
- 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 기사에는 아파트 단지를 다니는 비디오버스가 등장한다.
Old articles feature a 비디오버스 visiting apartment complexes.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “비디오버스”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Names a mobile business combining video rental with a bus. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
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