Korean Language Society

Korean Language Society is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Si-Gyeong.

Korean Language Society
Hangul
한글 학회
Hanja
한글學會
Revised RomanizationHan-geul Hakhoe
McCune–ReischauerHan'gŭl Hakhoe

Hangul Day was founded in 1926 during the Japanese occupation by members of the Korean Language Society, whose goal was to preserve the Korean language during a time of rapid forced Japanization.[1]

It established a Korean orthography (한글 맞춤법 통일안) in 1933.

See also

References

  1. Lee, Peter H.; Bary, William Theodore De. Sources of Korean Tradition: From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Columbia University Press. p. 321. ISBN 9780231120302. Retrieved 3 October 2016.


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