Korean slang profile
에스코
eseuko
Energy-saving investment company
An abbreviation for a company investing in energy-saving facilities first and recovering investment costs and profit from the reduced energy costs.
- Expanded form
- energy service companyenergy service company
- Other spellings
- ESCO
- 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
에스코 사업의 투자비 회수 방식을 알아봤다.
I looked into how an 에스코 project recovers its investment.
02Documented history
- 2001The 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “에스코”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The source gives the abbreviated structure of “energy service company” and the meaning of “에스코” 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 237쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 28, 2001Original source checked Nov 15, 2026