Korean slang profile
빅딜
bikdil
Major industrial restructuring deal
A major transaction restructuring industry by exchanging conglomerates’ affiliated businesses or concentrating them in competitive companies.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Jan 18, 1998
- 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
외환위기 당시의 산업구조 재편을 공부하며 빅딜의 뜻을 찾아봤다.
I looked up the meaning of 빅딜 while studying industrial restructuring during the foreign-exchange crisis.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
A 1998 동아일보 glossary explains that business circles often use it to mean exchanging affiliated businesses. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
Meaning and usage context in the contemporary original were checked. This stays within the particular source’s explanation and does not establish a 1998 origin or society-wide popularity.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- ［２００자 키워드］빅딜（Ｂｉｇ Ｄｅａｌ） (동아일보)Published Jan 18, 1998Original source checked Nov 15, 2026