In other words, Korean people are under constant pressure to use appropriate levels of language to the people they encounter or speak about. In ancient times, the use of speech levels had clear-cut ...

The biggest change of this revision is clear differentiation between Korean for daily life and that for work, allowing foreign workers to specifically learn the language necessary for both purposes.

The Korean language is even starting to change the way foreign K-pop fans speak. A survey of K-pop followers in Algeria found that most had started using Korean words and phrases in their daily ...

For one thing, most of the students in this school in Asan, an industrial city near the capital Seoul, may look ethnically Korean, but cannot speak the language. “If I don’t translate into ...

Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million ...