Korean slang profile
사이버팸
saibeopaem
A virtual online family
A virtual family relationship formed online.
- Expanded form
- cyber + familycyber + family
- Other spellings
- 사이버패밀리
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- 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
이용자들은 사이버팸 안에서 가족 역할을 나눠 활동했다.
Users assigned family roles within a 사이버팸.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “사이버팸”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
Shortens the family part of 사이버패밀리. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 34쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026