Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is...

Koreanic is a small language family consisting of the Korean and Jeju languages. The latter is often described as a dialect of Korean but is distinct...

South Korean standard language or Pyojuneo (Korean: 표준어; Hanja: 標準語; lit. Standard language) is the South Korean standard version of the Korean language. It...

A number of Korean dialects (Korean: 한국어의 방언) are spoken on the Korean Peninsula. The peninsula is very mountainous and each dialect's "territory" corresponds...

North Korean standard language or Munhwaŏ (Korean: 문화어; lit. "cultural language") is the North Korean standard version of the Korean language. Munhwaŏ...

Korean Sign Language or KSL (Korean: 한국 수화 언어 or short name 한국 수어) is a sign language used for deaf communities of South Korea. It is one of two official...

National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL; Korean: 국립국어원) is a language regulator of the Korean language based in Seoul, South Korea. It was created on...

Republic of Korea in the south. The Korean War began when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950. In 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement brought about...

Canada and the United States, are also of Korean ethnic descent. The Korean language is the native language spoken by the vast majority of the population...

marks, boxes, or other symbols. Zainichi Korean is a variety of Korean as spoken by Zainichi Koreans (ethnic Korean citizens or residents of Japan). The speech...

The Korean language has diverged between North and South Korea due to the length of time that the two states have been separated. The Korean Language Society...

Old Korean (North Korean name: 고대 조선어; South Korean name: 고대 한국어) is the first historically documented stage of the Korean language, typified by the language...

Korea (Korean: 한국, romanized: Hanguk in South Korea, or 조선, Chosŏn in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula...

The Korean Language Society (Korean: 한글 학회) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. Hangul Day was founded...

The writing system of the Korean language is a syllabic alphabet of character parts (jamo) organized into character blocks (geulja) representing syllables...

the Jeju language are spoken by members of the Korean diaspora who settled in China before 1949. The educational standard is the North Korean standard...

This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee...

Korean language well. South Korea still uses some Chinese Hanja characters in limited areas, such as print media and legal documentation. The Korean language...

Middle Korean is the period in the history of the Korean language succeeding Old Korean and yielding in 1600 to the Modern period. The boundary between...

which together with Korean and the Jeju language (spoken on Jeju Island and considered distinct) form the Koreanic language family. Korean is agglutinative...

are absent in Korean. Most of the Jeju lexicon is Koreanic, and the language preserves many Middle Korean words now lost in Standard Korean. Jeju may also...

Dravido-Koreanic, sometimes Dravido-Koreo-Japonic, is an abandoned proposal linking the Dravidian languages to Korean and (in some versions) to Japanese...

South Korean national anthem, Koreans are referred to as Daehan-saram. In an inter-Korean context, such as when dealing with the Koreanic languages or the...

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice...

A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist...

The Korean language has a system of linguistic honorifics that reflects the social status of participants. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social...

referring to either or both modern Korean countries, and even the user's political views on the Korean conflict. The name Korea is an exonym, derived from Goryeo...

Peninsula Korean cuisine Korean culture Korean language Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl Korean dialects and the Jeju language See also:...

of Korean Language (NIKL), Sino-Korean represents approximately 57% of the Korean vocabulary. The use of Chinese and Chinese characters in Korea dates...

The romanization of Korean (로마자 표기법; romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called...