Korean slang profile
이벤팅
ibenting
Themed meeting or dating event
A meeting or dating event organized around a particular theme, such as attending a performance or a wine party.
- Expanded form
- event + meetingevent + meeting
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
공연을 함께 보는 이벤팅에서 서로의 취향을 이야기했다.
At an 이벤팅 where we watched a performance together, we talked about our tastes.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “이벤팅”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It is a blend combining parts of event and meeting. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 11월 2주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026