Korean slang profile
이브이디오
ibeuidio
High-speed mobile wireless data
An abbreviation used for a wireless-internet service transmitting high-speed data to mobile handsets.
- Expanded form
- EVolution Data OnlyEVolution Data Only
- Other spellings
- EVDO, EV-DO
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
휴대전화 통신의 변화를 다룬 자료에서 이브이디오를 살폈다.
I examined 이브이디오 in a source about changes in mobile communications.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “이브이디오”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
A Korean rendering of the shortened English letters EVDO. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 51쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026