Korean slang profile
엠비에이
embiei
Master of Business Administration
An English abbreviation for a master’s degree in business administration.
- Expanded form
- Master of Business AdministrationMaster of Business Administration
- Other spellings
- MBA
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- 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
그는 경영을 더 공부하려고 엠비에이 과정에 지원했다.
They applied to an MBA program to study business further.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “엠비에이” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection gives MBA’s expanded English initials and defines a master’s degree in business administration. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026