Although South Korea promulgated the "Korean Special Law" in 1948, the use of Chinese characters has not completely stopped. Whether it is Chinese education in schools or folk writing, the phenomenon of Chinese characters mixed has existed for a long time. The policy of using Chinese characters in Korean textbooks is also changing. For example, the presidential decree of 1968 requires the deletion of Chinese characters from primary and secondary school textbooks, but in 1972, Chinese characters are designated as compulsory courses in junior high schools and included in the regular curriculum.

1973 middle school textbooks stipulate the reuse of Chinese characters, and 1995 is changed into an elective course. 1February 1999, then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung signed a presidential decree approving the use of Chinese characters in government documents and road signs. The promulgation of this presidential decree broke the ban on the use of Chinese characters by the Korean government for more than 50 years. At present, the Korean Ministry of Education has issued 1800 "new common Chinese characters" for education and 1300 "common Chinese characters" for daily life.

The Origin of Korean and Chinese Characters

Traditional Korean vocabulary includes inherent words and loanwords. Inherent words refer to the original words in Korean; Loanwords refer to words from other languages, of which nearly 70% are Chinese words from China, which can be written in Chinese in Korean.

Korean is a cohesive language, which has been marked with Chinese characters in history and integrated into its vocabulary. Chinese characters have long occupied the position of mainstream characters in Korea. 1446 10, the fourth monarch of the Korean dynasty, King Sejong, promulgated "Training the People's Righteousness", which marked the birth of Korean and ended the history that South Korea did not have its own characters and borrowed China Chinese characters to mark it.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Korean Characters