Korean slang profile
DRM
drm
Digital-content rights management
An abbreviation for technology that manages usage rights and copyright for digital content.
- Expanded form
- Digital Rights ManagementDigital Rights Management
- Other spellings
- 디아르엠
- Earliest source found
- Apr 2006
- 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
구매한 파일을 다른 기기에서 재생할 수 있는지 DRM 조건을 확인했다.
I checked the DRM conditions to see whether my purchased file could play on another device.
02Documented history
- 2006-04This source introduced “DRM” and explained its meaning.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A 2006 paper from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute explicitly gives DRM’s English expansion, while an Electronic Times article from the same year gives the Korean explanation 디지털 저작권 관리. Its first user has not been identified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
Only the sense of digital-content rights management is covered, distinguished from uses of the same abbreviation in other fields.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- IPTV 서비스 추진 동향 및 전망 — 전자통신동향분석21권2호 (한국전자통신연구원)Published Apr 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026
- 한국DRM업체협의회 사단법인화 한다 (전자신문)Published Aug 3, 2006Original source checked Nov 14, 2026