Korean slang profile
의보
uibo
Medical insurance
A shortened term for 의료 보험, meaning medical insurance.
- Expanded form
- 의료 보험의료 보험 (medical insurance)
- Other spellings
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- 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
옛 기사에서 의보 재정 문제를 다뤘다.
The old article covered 의보 financing problems.
02Documented history
- 2001The 국립국어연구원’s 『2001년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “의보”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The source gives the abbreviated structure of “의료 보험 (medical insurance)” and the meaning of “의보” 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 274쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 28, 2001Original source checked Nov 15, 2026