[KS] Re: Se habla Han'gul? Hanguru ga hanasemasu ka?

[martin_holman at berea.edu]

     A side note from Japan: The NHK television Korean language 
     instructional series (at least was the last time I noted it) has as 
     part of its title "hanguru kouza." They carefully avoid the use of 
     either "kankokugo" or "chousengo" on the program in order to keep the 
     two camps of Koreans in Japan off their backs. Probably due to that, I 
     have been hearing the Japanese (not on television) use the term 
     "hanguru" to refer the Korean language itself and not just to the 
     script for at least the last eight or nine years.
     
     I wonder if I should change the title of my spring course here to 
     "Hiragana/Kanji Literature." (And maybe some of my Shakespearian 
     scholar colleagues should be teaching in the Department of Alphabet.)
     
     Marty Holman
     Berea College
     Berea, Kentucky




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