[KS] Re: Se habla Han'gul?
Morgan Clippinger
clippim at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 27 20:24:10 EST 2000
The fascinating thread on han'gul led me to check out the two-volume North
Korean Chosonmal taesajon, to see if the term was even there. Surprisingly,
it was. According to its definition, han'gul is another way of referring
to the Hunmin chong'um, the "distinctive national characters (minjok kulcha)
of the Choson people," which has meaning of "great characters" (k'un kul) or
"correct characters." (parun kul) It notes that in 1927 the journal
Hangul was published and the term-"hangul" presumably--came to be used
throughout society. It gives two examples: han'gul pogup {han'gul
popularization" and han'gul tokpon 'han'gul reader."
The next entry was "hangul hakkyo." The Chosonmal taesajon defines kan'gul
hakkyo as the "schools that were organized immediately after the liberation
in order to eliminate illiteracy." Hmm. Could there be some linkage here
with the hangul hakkyo in the US?
The word "han'gul," interestingly enough, does not appear in the North
Korean Cho-yong sajon.
Morgan E. Clippinger
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