Bang (Korean) is a Korean word meaning "room". In a traditional Korean house, a sarangbang is the study or drawing room, for example.[citation needed]

Bang
Traditional Korean sarangbang (study room). Exterior, in the British Museum Department of Asia.
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanizationbang
McCune–Reischauerpang or bang
Traditional Korean sarangbang (study room). Interior, in the British Museum Department of Asia.

In modern Korea (especially in the South), the concept of a bang has expanded and diversified from being merely a walled segment in a domestic space, to including buildings or enterprises in commercial, urban, space, such as a PC bang (an internet café), a noraebang (a karaoke room), sojubang (a soju room, i.e. a pub), manhwabang (a manhwa room, where people read or borrow manhwa) and a jjimjilbang (elaborate Korean public bathhouse). This can be compared with the similar expansion of the concept of a "house" to include upper houses, opera houses, coffee houses, and publishing houses.[citation needed]

Phonetically more tensed word ppang () is used as an abbreviation of a noun gambang (감방; 監房; kambang), meaning "jail".

Multibang

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A multibang

Multibang is a kind of entertainment venue in South Korea where people can play video games and board games. In addition, they can eat snacks, drink non-alcoholic beverages, sing, and watch films.[1]

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  1. ^ S Kwaak, Jeyup (19 July 2011). "Evolution of Korean 'bang' culture". travel.cnn.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.

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