Korean slang profile
핌비
pimbi
Seeking local investment and facilities
A term for actively seeking to attract business investment or facilities to one’s own area.
- Expanded form
- Please in My Back YardPlease in My Back Yard
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Nov 1999
- 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
투자 유치 경쟁을 다룬 글에서 핌비 현상을 소개했다.
An article on competition to attract investment introduced the 핌비 phenomenon.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
Gyeonggi Province’s November 1999 지식행정 용어해설집 includes this abbreviation and its definition. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The November 1999 revised edition was compared on PDF page 332. The definition was checked. This is a general or specialist abbreviation of the time; it does not mean it originated or became popular that year. First use was not verified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 지식행정 용어해설집 (경기도, 1999년 11월 수정판)Published Nov 1999Original source checked Nov 15, 2026