Korean slang profile
시아이
siai
Unifying corporate philosophy and image
An abbreviation for activities unifying a company’s philosophy and image, including revising its business name or symbols.
- Expanded form
- Corporate IdentityCorporate Identity
- Other spellings
- CI
- Earliest source found
- Dec 28, 2001
- 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
새 시아이를 정하면서 회사의 상징 표시도 바꿨다.
When defining the new 시아이, we also changed the company emblem.
02Documented history
- 2001The 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “시아이”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The source gives the abbreviated structure of “Corporate Identity” and the meaning of “시아이” together. This was checked in the body of the 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The definitions in the body of the 2001 collection were compared. The collection also includes previously used words absent from dictionaries. The original older articles re-quoted there were not separately opened, and neither the first use date nor the extent of spread at the time was verified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2001년 신어 — 신어 목록 212쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 28, 2001Original source checked Nov 15, 2026