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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
RRHangeul hakhoe
MRHan'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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