Korean Language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어/韓國語, hangugeo, North Korean: 조선말/朝鮮말, chosŏnmal) is an East Asian language spoken by about 77 million people. It is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each country. It is a recognised minority language in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin Province, China. It is also spoken in parts of Sakhalin, Russia and Central Asia.Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate; however, it does have a few extinct relatives, which together with Korean itself and …

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Chatham House · 3 June 2024 English

This research paper argues that private sector actors play a crucial part in generating, enabling and mitigating gendered cyber harms. They can both seriously endanger and meaningfully advance gender-transformative cybersecurity …

to monitor domestic and foreign websites for Korean-language hashtags that may reference images and videos


Amnesty International · 29 May 2024 English

Spike in executions in Iran leads to highest number of executions since 2015 Progress in the USA falters as number of executions rise China continues to execute thousands, while threatening …

punishment forthosewho did not use the native Korean language. Meanwhile, military authorities in Myanmar


Amnesty International · 29 May 2024 English

Spike in recorded executions in Iran leads to highest number of recorded executions since 2015 In sub-Saharan Africa, recorded executions more than tripled and recorded death sentences increased by 66% …

punishment forthosewho did not use the native Korean language. Meanwhile, military authorities in Myanmar


Amnesty International · 28 May 2024 English

Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty recorded 1,153 known executions in 2023, an increase by 31% from 883 in 2022. However, there was a significant …

who do not use exclusively the Pyongyang Korean Language, with no foreign influences permitted.42 Amnesty


RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 10 May 2024 English

Views expressed in the outcome document are those of the participants of the conference and not the views of the Governments of India, Bangladesh or Japan, and the RIS. [...] …

journey, Anurita is well versed in Japanese and Korean language both spoken and written. She also enjoys her


RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 10 May 2024 English

Views expressed in the outcome document are those of the participants of the conference and not the views of the Governments of India, Bangladesh or Japan, and the RIS. [...] …

journey, Anurita is well versed in Japanese and Korean language both spoken and written. She also enjoys her


MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 18 April 2024 English

SSindoh D3324041812070 A MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP SOVIET UPDATE • BY DR JOHN RUSSELL As the Soviet Union in the Gorbachev era attempts to territorial autonomy, the Greeks and Kurds the …

1988) an All-Union quite well catered for in Korean language publications Congress of Meskhetian Turks brought Kabardin-Balkar ASSR (Northern Caucasus). A major as Korean-language editions of the journals Soviet Union split


ASPI: Asia Society Policy Institute · 19 March 2024 English

In 2013, the operator of the Fukushima plant revealed that approximately 300 tons of highly contaminated water had leakedvi out of a storage tank; the Atomic Energy Society of Japan …

Korean identity by restrict- ing use of the Korean language, and imposing Japanese culture and military


RCOA: Refugee Council of Australia · 18 March 2024 English

The Special program should begin to be operational in the second half of 2023.13 This is Humanitarian part of the Special Humanitarian Visa Program for national people and Visas residents …

beneficiaries are provided with courses in Korean language, culture, and occupational skills at this Centre


International Longevity Centre · 28 February 2024 English

• Increased investment in lifelong learning Many of these countries invest more public funding in education, both to encourage and enable a wide range of provision and to reduce the …

Open Online Course platform offered in the Korean language, known as a K-MOOC. It offers hundreds of courses


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