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Hangul is the Korean alphabet.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Korean language</span> Language spoken in Korea

Korean is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea, but over the past 75 years of political division, the two Koreas have developed some noticeable vocabulary differences. Beyond Korea, the language is recognised as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin Province, and specifically Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai County. It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin, the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the Koryo-saram in parts of Central Asia. The language has a few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family. Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible with each other. The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in contemporary Manchuria. The hierarchy of the society from which the language originates deeply influences the language, leading to a system of speech levels and honorifics indicative of the formality of any given situation.

Korean may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hanja</span> Korean language characters of Chinese origin

Hanja, alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Korean name</span> Naming customs of Korean culture

A Korean name consists of a family name followed by a given name, as used by the Korean people in both South Korea and North Korea. In the Korean language, ireum or seongmyeong usually refers to the family name (seong) and given name together. Korean names are descended from Chinese names as part of Sino-Korean vocabulary.

WI or wi may refer to:

Kim is the most common surname in Korea. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 10,689,959 people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population. Even if the Korean surnames have the same pronunciation, there are different family clans(bon-gwan). Since there are dozens of these family clans, they all have different ancestors even if they are the same Kim in pronunciation. The family clans system that exists in Korea has a peculiarity different from the surnames of other countries. Kim is written as 김 (gim) in both North and South Korea. The hanja for Kim, , can also be transliterated as (geum) which means "gold, metal, iron". While romanized as Kim by 99.3% of the its population, other rare variant romanizations such as Gim, Ghim, and Kin consist of the remaining 0.6%.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wonju</span> Municipal City in Gwandong, South Korea

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Chuseok, also known as Hangawi, is a major mid-autumn harvest festival and a three-day holiday in South Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon. In North Korea, they only celebrate for the day of chuseok. Like many other harvest festivals around the world, it is held around the autumn equinox, i.e. at the very end of summer or in early autumn. It is the biggest traditional holiday in South Korea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Siheung</span> Municipal City in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Korean Braille</span> Braille alphabet of the Korean language

Korean Braille is the Braille alphabet of the Korean language. It is not graphically-related to other braille scripts found around the world. Instead, it reflects the patterns found in Hangul, and differentiates initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.

Jamo can refer to:

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Kang is a Korean family name. All together, the holders of this name number are 1,176,847 in South Korea, according to the 2015 national census, ranking 6th largest Korean family name. While the name "Kang" can actually represent any of the 5 different hanja, or Chinese characters, the great majority bear the surname 姜. The Chinese surname Jiāng also shares the same 姜 character.

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Lim Su-jeong or Im Soo-jung may refer to:

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hangul</span> Native alphabet of the Korean language

The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are systematically modified for related sounds, making Hangul a featural writing system. It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems, although it is not necessarily an abugida.