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Korean is spoken by the Korean people in both South Korea and North Korea, and by the Korean diaspora in many countries including the People's Republic of China, the United States, Japan, and Russia. In 2001, Korean was the fourth most popular foreign language in China, following English, Japanese, and Russian. [ 68 ]
"Korea" is the modern spelling of "Corea", a name attested in English as early as 1614. [5] [6] "Corea" is derived from the name of the ancient kingdom of Goryeo. [7]Korea was transliterated as Cauli in The Travels of Marco Polo, [8] of the Chinese 高麗 (MC: Kawlej, [9] mod.
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.
South Koreans refer to themselves as Hanguk-in [j] or Hanguk-saram, [k] both of which mean "people of the Han". The "Han" in the names of the Korean Empire, Daehan Jeguk, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Daehan Minguk or Hanguk, are named in reference to the Three Kingdoms of Korea, not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean ...
In the contemporary era, Sino-Korean vocabulary has continued to grow in South Korea, where the meanings of Chinese characters are used to produce new words in Korean that do not exist in Chinese. By contrast, North Korean policy has called for many Sino-Korean words to be replaced by native Korean terms.
Paiting as used in Korean has undergone the process of translanguaging, causing it to have different meanings in English and Korean. [4] In English, "fighting" is a verb (specifically, a present participle) whereas cheers and exclamations of support usually take the form of imperative verbs.
Gun, also spelled Geon, Kŏn, Keon, Gon, Kuhn, or Kun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
Im or Lim (Korean: 임) is a common Korean family name. The surname is identical to the Chinese character of the same name. The surname is identical to the Chinese character of the same name. [ a ] According to the initial law of the Korean language, both "Im" and "Lim" are interchangeable.