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Korean Language Society

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Korean Language Society
The headquarters of Korean Language Society in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Korean name
Hangul
한글 학회
Hanja
한글學會
Revised RomanizationHangeul Hakhoe
McCune–ReischauerHan'gŭl Hakhoe

The Korean Language Society (Korean한글 학회) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. It promotes hangul exclusive writing.

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.

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
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