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Some of these speech levels are disappearing from the majority of Korean speech. Hasoseo-che is now used mainly in movies or dramas set in the Joseon era and in religious speech. [1] Hage-che is nowadays limited to some modern male speech, whilst Hao-che is now found more commonly in the Jeolla dialect and Pyongan dialect than in the Seoul dialect.
The test was first administered in 1997 and taken by 2,274 people. Initially the test was held only once a year. [1] In 2009, 180,000 people took the test. [2] The Korean government introduced a law in 2007 that required Chinese workers of Korean descent with no relatives in Korea to attain more than 200 points (out of 400) in the Business TOPIK (B-TOPIK) so they could be entered into a ...
The choice of whether to use a Sino-Korean noun or a native Korean word is a delicate one, with the Sino-Korean alternative often sounding more profound or refined. It is in much the same way that Latin- or French-derived words in English are used in higher-level vocabulary sets (e.g. the sciences), thus sounding more refined – for example ...
A lowly noun used with a high speech level, or an honorific noun used with a low speech level, will be interpreted as a third person pronoun. For example, jane is used for "you" in the familiar speech level and is appropriate only as long as the familiar speech level itself is. The familiar speech level is used to talk in a friendly way to ...
The age of each other, including the slight age difference, affects whether or not to use honorifics. Korean language speakers in South Korea and North Korea, except in very intimate situations, use different honorifics depending on whether the other person's year of birth is one year or more older, or the same year, or one year or more younger.
In Korean this category was created for the affirmative and negative copula. The affirmative copula is 이다 ida "to be," and the negative copula 아니다 anida "not to be." However, there are many other verbs in Korean that also serve to attach verb endings to nouns, most notably 하다 hada "to do."
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