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알바 (alba)

AL-banoun, verbColloquial

A Korean slang term. Browse all Korean slang.

What it means

  1. A part-time job, and the person doing it. 알바생 is the worker, 알바비 the wage, 꿀알바 a cushy one.

Examples with translations

  • 카페에서 알바하고 있어.

    I'm working part-time at a café.

  • 알바비 언제 들어와?

    When does the part-time pay come in?

Where it comes from

Clipped from 아르바이트, taken from German Arbeit through Japanese アルバイト during the colonial period. One of many German words that reached Korean by that route rather than directly.

Other forms

Romanised as:
alba
Spellings and variants:
아르바이트