Korean slang profile
만반잘부
manbanjalbu
Nice to meet you—let's get along
An abbreviation of 만나서 반가워, 잘 부탁해, a greeting used when meeting someone for the first time.
- Expanded form
- 만나서 반가워 잘 부탁해Nice to meet you—let's get along
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Mar 27, 2019
- Documented trend period
- Around 2019~
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
새로 왔어요, 만반잘부!
I'm new here. Nice to meet you—let's get along!
- Quoted from a source
‘만반잘부’다. ‘만나서 반가워, 잘 부탁해’라는 뜻으로 처음 보는 자리에서 인사할 때 쓴다.[1]
It is ‘만반잘부’. It means ‘nice to meet you, please take care of me’ and is used when greeting each other when meeting each other for the first time.
English translation by Julimmal.
02Documented history
- March 2019Insight introduced a new word used among college students and explained the meaning of ‘만반잘부’ as a word used when greeting someone when meeting them for the first time. It was introduced in terms of ‘인싸’.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Short for 만나서 반가워, 잘 부탁해, a first-meeting greeting. A 2019 Insight article explicitly gives the expansion. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The article explicitly explains the term. When it was first used is unknown.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 진정한 ‘인싸’가 되고 싶다면 꼭 알아둬야 할 2019 버전 ‘인싸 용어’ (인사이트)Published Mar 27, 2019Original source checked Nov 5, 2026