Korean Language Society Explained

Hangul:	한글 학회
Hanja:	韓㐎學會
Rr:	Han-geul Hakhoe
Mr:	Han'gŭl Hakhoe

The Korean Language Society is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. It promotes hangul exclusive writing.

Hangul Day was founded in 1926 during the Japanese occupation of Korea by members of the Korean Language Society, whose goal was to preserve the Korean language during a time of rapid Japanization.^[1] The society established a Korean orthography in 1933.

Many of its early members were imprisoned and tortured in 1942 when Korea was under Japanese imperial rule.

See also

• Korean language
• Korean as a foreign language
• South Korean standard language

External links

• Korean Language Society's website (Korean)

Notes and References

1. Book: Lee. Peter H.. Bary. William Theodore De. Sources of Korean Tradition: From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 1997. Columbia University Press. 9780231120302. 321. 3 October 2016. en.