Korean slang profile
파이팅
paiting
Encouragement or cheering
An expression used to encourage or cheer someone on, meaning “you can do it.”
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- 화이팅, 화이링
- Earliest source found
- 1998
- 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
오늘 발표 잘할 수 있어. 파이팅!
You can do well in today’s presentation. 파이팅!
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
A paper in the summer 1998 issue of 새국어생활 explains variant spellings of 파이팅. A 서울신문 article that year uses it in a cheering context as residents call it out at a send-off. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The paper explains variant spellings and is not a dictionary of meanings. The encouraging function was compared with a farewell usage in a newspaper’s body dated February 26, 1998. First use and the formation of the English source word remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 컴퓨터 통신 분야의 외래어 사용 — PDF 13~14쪽·인쇄73~74쪽 (새국어생활 1998년 여름호)Published 1998Original source checked Nov 15, 2026
- 국민의 정부 출범김 대통령 취임하던 날 (서울신문)Published Feb 26, 1998Original source checked Nov 15, 2026