Korean slang profile
시음버스
sieumbeoseu
Vehicle offering promotional drink tastings
A vehicle providing tasting services to promote products such as alcoholic or other drinks.
- Expanded form
- 시음 + bustasting + bus
- Other spellings
- —
- 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
광장에 도착한 시음버스에서 새 음료를 소개했다.
The 시음버스 arriving in the square introduced a new drink.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “시음버스”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
It names mobile promotion combining a drink-tasting event with a bus. 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 explanationMedium
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 6월 4주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026