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"South Korea's Linguistic Tangle: English vs. Korean vs. Konglish."

English Today, 2017

Konglish is a blend of Korean and English found throughout South Korea, and often suffers for lack of prestige amongst Koreans. The primary aim of this article is to determine the reasons behind Konglish's low social status in Korea. I begin my investigation by exploring Korean public space as linguistic space, and examining in what social and cultural capacities Koreans use English, Mandarin, Korean, and Konglish. I then shift in part II to discuss perceptions of Korean and English inside Korea. Having analysed Koreans’ attitudes towards Konglish's parent languages, I discuss in part III why Konglish struggles for social legitimacy, despite its ubiquity. In the course of this investigation it will become clear that Koreans often deride Konglish for its ease of use. Because one absorbs it organically through cultural exposure rather than hours of study and millions of won in tuition fees, Konglish accords none of the prestige that comes with Standard English; meanwhile, Konglish's mixed nature means not only that it cannot benefit from the national pride Koreans associate with ‘pure’ Korean, but also that this pride harms Konglish's reception throughout the country.

Language Policy of North Korea and South Korea

Khazar University, 2018

This article is aimed to identify the language policies of North and South Korea. Here the main point is not only the comparison, but also there are three aspects that should be noted. The first one is that in North Korea language policy was ruled and organized by Kim IL Sung, while in South Korea the language policy was in a disorganized situation because there was no government initiative and the loose connection between official groups. The second point is the probability of reunification, even the countries carry out different measures, there are still implications that may lead to reunification. This article has also provided language issues that can be important for the reunited countries. The last one, language situation in the countries is similar to Neutstupny’s typology of language treatment: the policy approach and the cultivation approach. He states that policy approach relates to speech communities, such as selection of dialects or national language, orthography; the cultivation approach is somehow related to modern industrial societies, problems of style, correctness (Jae Jung Song, 130).

The Impact of the English Language in Korea

This BA thesis focuses on demonstrating the impact of the English language in Korea, both as regards its language and society, as well as to analyze the linguistic variety of Konglish. After making a briefly introduction of the history of Konglish and its nowadays common uses, my aim is to focus on analyzing the lexical loanwords and the new words of English origin that have become part of the Korean language. Based on the findings provided by the corpus retrieved from Korean sources, my thesis may help to contribute to the development of a lexical and semantic distribution of these terms, so as to provide new data to Konglish research and further information to the linguistic field of English varieties in East Asia.

Linguistic Imperialism and the English-learning Boom in Korea

2008

This paper critically reviews the issue of the overheated English-learning boom in Korea, and investigates how such a boom affects public education in Korea and the learning of Korean children. This issue is analyzed with two theoretical frameworks: linguistic imperialism (Phillipson 1992) and social capital theory (Bourdieu 1991). As a case analysis, this paper focuses on the cases of both ‘'the newly arrived’' Korean children at an English-immersion program and ‘'the residing’' Korean children as linguistic minorities in the U.S. These two groups of Korean children gather around weekend Korean schools founded by Korean community churches, and both groups learn their heritage language and revive their heritage identities. It is found that the weekend Korean schools work as language shelters and ethnic strongholds where the Korean children’'s ethnic culture, language, and identity are respected, revived, and maintained. By investigating the issue, this paper high...