The Korean Language Society (Korean: 한글 학회) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. It promotes hangul exclusive writing.
| Korean Language Society | |
 | |
| Korean name | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 한글 학회 |
| Hanja | 한글學會 |
| Revised Romanization | Hangeul Hakhoe |
| McCune–Reischauer | Han'gŭl Hakhoe |
Hangul Day was founded in 1926 during the Japanese occupation of Korea by members of the Korean Language Society, whose goal was to preserve the Korean language during a time of rapid Japanization.[1] The society established a Korean orthography (한글 맞춤법 통일안) in 1933.
Many of its early members were imprisoned and tortured in 1942 when Korea was under Japanese imperial rule.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Lee, Peter H.; Bary, William Theodore De (1997). Sources of Korean Tradition: From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Columbia University Press. p. 321. ISBN 9780231120302. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
External links
edit- Korean Language Society's website (Korean)
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