Korean slang profile
컴퍼데미
keompeodemi
Company encouraging employee learning
A term formerly used for a company that encourages employees’ learning and self-development.
- Expanded form
- company + academycompany + academy
- 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
직원들이 꾸준히 배울 수 있는 컴퍼데미를 만들자는 제안이 나왔다.
Someone proposed creating a 컴퍼데미 where employees could keep learning.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “컴퍼데미”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It is a blend combining parts of company, meaning a business, and academy, meaning an educational institution. 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 9월 3주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026