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  2. Republic of Korea Navy Special Warfare Flotilla - Wikipedia

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    년 해군 해상 대테테러 훈련 Rep. of Korea Navy (UDT) In 1968, the Explosives Disposal Unit (EOD) was established and in 1993 the SWF were tasked with standing up a maritime counter-terrorism unit, which up until that point was the responsibility of the Army's 707th Special Mission Group .

  3. Underwater Demolition Team - Wikipedia

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    The Korean War was a period of transition for the men of the UDT. They tested their previous limits and defined new parameters for their special style of warfare. These new techniques and expanded horizons positioned the UDT well to assume an even broader role as war began brewing to the south in Vietnam .

  4. UDT - Wikipedia

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    Republic of Korea Navy UDT/SEAL, from the Republic of Korea Navy União Democrática Timorense , (Timorese Democratic Union), a conservative political party in East Timor Union Démocratique Tchadienne , (Chadian Democratic Union), the second African political party in Chad

  5. Korean language in China - Wikipedia

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    The educational standard is the North Korean standard language. Chinese Korean vocabulary is very similar to the North Korean standard, as is orthography; a major exception of orthography is that the spelling of some Chinese cities is different (for example, Hong Kong is referred to by the Sino-Korean name of 香港, 향항, Hyanghang, rather ...

  6. Hanja - Wikipedia

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    Hanja (Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字, Korean pronunciation: [ha(ː)ntɕ͈a]), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language.After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period.

  7. Sino-Korean vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The use of Chinese and Chinese characters in Korea dates back to at least 194 BCE. While Sino-Korean words were widely used during the Three Kingdoms period, they became even more popular during the Silla period. During this time, male aristocrats changed their given names to Sino-Korean names. Additionally, the government changed all official ...

  8. Names of Korea - Wikipedia

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    The earliest records of Korean history are written in Chinese characters called hanja. Even after the invention of hangul, Koreans generally recorded native Korean names with hanja, by translation of meaning, transliteration of sound, or even combinations of the two. Furthermore, the pronunciations of the same character are somewhat different ...

  9. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.