Korean slang profile
팸레
paemre
Family-restaurant abbreviation
A shortened name for a family restaurant.
- Expanded form
- 패밀리 레스토랑family restaurant
- Other spellings
- 패밀리 레스토랑
- 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
주말에 팸레에서 가족과 식사하기로 했다.
We decided to eat with the family at a 팸레 over the weekend.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “팸레”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It joins shortened parts of 패밀리 레스토랑. 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 12월 2주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026