Korean slang profile
에프에이
epeuei
Free agent or free-agency system
An abbreviation for an athlete who can freely contract with another team after playing for a team for a certain period, or the system allowing this.
- Expanded form
- Free AgentFree Agent
- Other spellings
- FA
- Earliest source found
- Dec 28, 2001
- 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
그 선수는 에프에이 자격을 얻었다.
The player obtained 에프에이 status.
02Documented history
- 2001The 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “에프에이”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The source gives the abbreviated structure of “Free Agent” and the meaning of “에프에이” together. This was checked in the body of the 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The definitions in the body of the 2001 collection were compared. The collection also includes previously used words absent from dictionaries. The original older articles re-quoted there were not separately opened, and neither the first use date nor the extent of spread at the time was verified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2001년 신어 — 신어 목록 238쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 28, 2001Original source checked Nov 15, 2026