Understanding Korea materials - Hangeul: 1. Korean Language and Hangeul in East Asia

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 Hangeul: 1. Korean Language and Hangeul in East Asia

1. Korean Language and Hangeul in East Asia

There are three countries in East Asia: Korea (South Korea and North Korea), China and Japan. Historically, these three neighboring countries have maintained an extremely close relationship, and that intimacy extends to the present, encompassing politics, economics and culture.

<Figure 1> Korea, China, and Japan (by Google Map)
However, each one of these three countries possesses distinctive, native language and writing systems. The official spoken languages for Korea, China and Japan are Korean, Mandarin and Japanese, respectively.1 As described in , these three languages belong to different linguistic families and genuses and use different alphabets.2 <Figure 2>, <Figure 3-1>, <Figure 3-2>, and <Figure 4> attest to this fact.