Other communities are found in Singapore, Thailand, Guam, and Paraguay. The total number of speakers is 72 million (Grimes 1992). Korean has been listed as a critical language by the American State ...

How do you say "deepfake," "ASAP" and "digital" in Korean? The fight to keep foreign words from diluting the language ...

This fear of the number 4 is called tetraphobia. Interestingly, it also has a very specific reason. In the Korean language, there are some words that are pure or native Korean. Others are Sino-Korean, ...

Therefore, what matters more is not the number of levels, but how rigorously these levels are used which affect Korean people’s daily lives and social relationships. 4. Is Korea’s evolving social ...