Korean slang profile
O2O
O2O
An abbreviation for a business model connecting online and offline channels to access products or services.
An abbreviation for a business model connecting online and offline channels to access products or services.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Nov 19, 2020
- 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
배달 주문처럼 O2O로 연결되는 서비스를 정리해 봤어.
I listed services connected through O2O, such as ordering delivery.
02Documented history
03Origin & word formation
The Korea Internet & Security Agency’s research introduction gives the expanded form as ‘Online to Offline’. A 2020 매일경제 article describes services connecting online and offline channels but writes ‘Online to Online’ instead. The sources differ in their English wording; the abbreviation’s first use could not be established.
Evidence for the origin explanationLow
The meaning of connecting online and offline activity was checked, but the two sources give different expanded English forms. The institutional source lacks publication metadata, so its date was omitted.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 지문 스마트카드를 이용한 클라우드 전자서명 연구 (한국인터넷진흥원)Original source checked Nov 13, 2026
- 제70회 매경TEST 시사용어 (매일경제)Published Nov 19, 2020Original source checked Nov 13, 2026