PC bang

noun

PC bang

noun

Etymology From Korean PC방 (pisi-bang, literally “PC room”). First attested in 1999.

1

South Korea A public internet cafe where people can meet to play multiplayer computer games for a fee.

  • In South Korea, mobile phones have created a new population called transyouths who connect to each other through screens and PC bangs (J.H-j. Choi, 2010).2021, Micky Lee, Peichi Chung, Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia, page 23:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.