scholarly journals A Case Study on Realtime Distance Video Korean Education - Based on the KF Global E-school: Sookmyung Womens’ Univ.-Kuwait Univ. Korean Language Program -

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (null) ◽  
pp. 413-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younghee Lee
Keyword(s):  
Korean Language ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Korean Education

A topic modeling analysis of Korea’s T&I research trends in the 2010s

Babel ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changsoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
New Research ◽  
Topic Structure ◽  
Manual Classification

Abstract The present study aims to demonstrate the relevance of topic modeling as a new research tool for analyzing research trends in the T&I field. Until now, most efforts to this end have relied on manual classification based on pre-established typologies. This method is time- and labor-consuming, prone to subjective biases, and limited in describing a vast amount of research output. As a key component of text mining, topic modeling offers an efficient way of summarizing topic structure and trends over time in a collection of documents while being able to describe the entire system without having to rely on sampling. As a case study, the present paper applies the technique to analyzing a collection of abstracts from four Korean Language T&I journals for the 2010s decade (from 2010 to 2019). The analysis proves the technique to be highly successful in uncovering hidden topical structure and trends in the abstract corpus. The results are discussed along with implications of the technique for the T&I field.

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.

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