Korean slang profile
CBO
cbo
Community environmental organization
An abbreviation for an organization carrying out environmental conservation activities based in a local community.
- Expanded form
- community based organizationcommunity based organization
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Nov 1999
- 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
지역 주민들이 참여한 CBO의 활동을 살폈다.
I examined the activities of a CBO involving local residents.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
Gyeonggi Province’s November 1999 지식행정 용어해설집 gives CBO’s expanded form and its meaning of community environmental conservation activities within the NGO entry. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The November 1999 revised edition was compared on PDF page 327. It is a general or specialist abbreviation of the time, not a claim of first use or popularity that year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 지식행정 용어해설집 (경기도, 1999년 11월 수정판)Published Nov 1999Original source checked Nov 15, 2026