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Help:IPA/Korean. The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Korean language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. It is based on the standard dialect of South Korea and may not represent some of the sounds in the North Korean dialect or in other dialects. For a guide to adding IPA characters to ...
In the spring of 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere, South Korea's 4B movement was a popular topic on Western social media, and some English-speaking users on TikTok claimed that Korea's low birth rate was due to the 4B movement. [28] Others claimed that the 4B movement's scale and impact are massively exaggerated. [29]
Initial sound rule ( Korean : 두음법칙; Hanja : 頭音法則; RR : dueum beopchik ) is series of changes to hangul, the writing system for the Korean language, made in South Korea to better reflect modern Korean phonology. The changes affect syllable-initial ㄹ r and ㄴ n sounds in Sino-Korean vocabulary under certain conditions.
Soo-young, also spelled Su-yeong or Su-young, is a Korean given name, that is a unisex name.Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 67 hanja with the reading "soo" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (한국과학기술원, Hanguk Gwahak Gisulwon) is referred to as KAIST (카이스트, Kaiseuteu) in both English and Korean. The 3 most prestigious schools in Korea are known as SKY ( 스카이 , seukai ), combining the first letter of their English names ( S eoul National, K orea, and Y ...
The Gyeongsang dialects ( Korean : 경상도 사투리; RR : Gyeongsangdo saturi ), also known as Southeastern Korean ( 동남 방언; Dongnam Bangeon; lit. Southeastern Dialect), are dialects of the Korean language from the historical region of Gyeongsang Province. Today, that region is divided into Daegu, Busan, Ulsan, North Gyeongsang ...
Sino-Korean words constitute a large portion of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and loanwords from other languages, such as Japanese and English to a lesser extent. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts, [5] and to express abstract or complex ideas. [7]
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. [ 66 ]