Korean slang profile
미니텔
minitel
Small combined office and residence
A small office that also serves as a residence.
- Expanded form
- mini + officetelmini + officetel
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 28, 2001
- 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
작은 미니텔에 작업 공간을 마련했다.
I set up a workspace in a small 미니텔.
02Documented history
- 2001The 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “미니텔”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The source gives the abbreviated structure of “mini + officetel” and the meaning of “미니텔” together. This was checked in the body of the 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The definitions in the body of the 2001 collection were compared. The collection also includes previously used words absent from dictionaries. The original older articles re-quoted there were not separately opened, and neither the first use date nor the extent of spread at the time was verified. Although these share combined residential and work use, the source’s respective scopes of small scale, venture founders, and rental functions were preserved.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2001년 신어 — 신어 목록 120쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 28, 2001Original source checked Nov 15, 2026