Korean slang profile
가성비
gaseongbi
Value for money
How much performance or satisfaction something provides for its price. It can be described as good or poor value.
- Expanded form
- 가격 대비 성능(비)Value for money
- Other spellings
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- Earliest source found
- 2012
- Documented trend period
- Before 2012~
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
이 식당은 가성비가 좋아.
This restaurant is good value for money.
02Documented history
- summer 2012It was included as ‘an abbreviation for price-performance ratio’ in the explanation of the meaning of communication language in issue 113 of ‘Woollim’, a newsletter of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (now the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy).[1]
03Origin & word formation
The newsletter expands it as 가격 대비 성능비, meaning performance relative to price. Where and when it was coined have not been verified. The 2012 date is only the oldest source checked for this entry.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The source explicitly expands the abbreviation, but only in a one-line explanation. When it was first used is unknown.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 울림 2012 여름호 제113호 — 통신언어 풀이 (지식경제부(현 산업통상자원부 자료실))Published 2012Original source checked Nov 5, 2026