Korean slang profile
에프티에이
epeutiei
Free trade agreement
An English abbreviation for a free trade agreement removing trade barriers between countries.
- Expanded form
- Free Trade AgreementFree Trade Agreement
- Other spellings
- FTA
- 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
국제 무역 수업에서 에프티에이의 원형을 배웠다.
In international-trade class, I learned the expanded form of 에프티에이.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “에프티에이” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection presents FTA’s expanded English initials alongside the Korean term for a free trade agreement. 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