Education on the Chinese characters used in Korea and Korean language policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung-soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Korean Language

scholarly journals Questioning North Korea’s digraphic inflection point: Kim Il Sung’s 1964 and 1966 conversations with linguists reconsidered

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 263-281
Author(s):  
William Strnad
Keyword(s):  
Inflection Point ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Korean Education ◽  
Language Planning And Policy ◽  
The North ◽  
Fait Accompli ◽  
Policy Guidance ◽  
Teaching Chinese

Kim Il Sung’s 1964 and 1966 conversations with linguists are appropriately deemed important as the establishment of the North’s “cultured language” as a standard, as well as guidance related to language purification and script. In the analysis of inflection point related to language planning and policy in the North, is the often guidance on re-enshrinement of teaching “Chinese characters” (hanja) in North Korean education. Clearly this was official pronouncement of functional, synchronic digraphia, which has been preserved and operationalized down to the present. Scholarship on these conversations, amounting to policy guidance, attribute the shift in policy related to script as an inflection point. The author of this article concurs with its importance, but with respect to digraphia in the North, the conversations related to hanja instruction served as a confirmation for what was a broad trend in North Korean language planning during the years 1953-1964, a language planning and policy  fait accompli, diminishing the portrayal of the conversations as a digraphic inflection point in North Korea.

A Study on the Systematization of Korean Language policy Statistics

2014 ◽  
Vol null (168) ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
박재현 ◽  
이관희 ◽  
KimEunSung ◽  
Kayoung Nam
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Korean Language
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