Study investigates the gendered focus on the Japanese language-learning boom in postcolonial Korea
In the 1960s, Japanese books became immensely popular in South Korea. Interestingly, Korean newspapers often wrote about this ...
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The Japanese Language
Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages form Japanese–Ryukyuan language family (Ethnologue, Vance 2001). It has been proposed that Japanese may be genetically related to Korean, but that has not been ...
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Korean Language
Some of the dialects are not easily mutually intelligible. The Korean language is part of a northern Asian language known as Altaic, that includes Turkish, Mongolian and Japanese, suggesting early ...
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Is Korea headed into its own ‘lost decades’ like Japan?
In a talk in Seoul, Japanese economist Itsuko Teruoka raised the question of whether Korea might be confronting similar ...
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Young people in Japan and South Korea move on from the past
Most Japanese students were in their late 20s ... Senior High School in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward launched a Korean language course in 2000, only seven students enrolled. But enrollment began ...
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Gendered bilingualism in post-colonial Korea
An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher has found that there are differences in the content of newspaper articles from South Korea reporting on the Japanese language learning boom of the 1960s, ...
Korean language teaching expert says demand has outstripped supply
The Korean language and its writing system Hangeul are not easy to learn, let alone teach. Two non-Korean scholars have shown ...
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Japanese and Korean artists celebrate the art of calligraphy
A new “Paths of Ink” exhibition celebrating the art of calligraphy will open in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Schaefer International Gallery on Nov. 12, with works by eight Japanese and Korean ...
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4 Japanese & Korean Dramas To Watch If You Miss "What Comes After Love"
This story of this inter-country drama revolves around a Korean man, Woo Hyun (T.O.P), and a Japanese woman, Haruka (Ueno ...
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US flies long-range bomber in drill with South Korea, Japan in reaction to the North’s missile test
Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads ... South Korean Air Force F-15K fighter jets and Japanese Air ...
Taste of Korea to raise funds for Hawaii Korean Cultural Center
Amanda Chang, President of the nonprofit Hawaii Korean Cultural Center, and Chef Pia Lim of Chogajip Korean Restaurant joined ...
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Nobel laureate Han Kang to hear Korean introduction at award ceremony in Stockholm
Han Kang, the first Korean and the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, is set to create another historic ...