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What is Korean language and literature?
The Department of Korean Language and Literature aims at the creative inheritance and development of Korean culture through the study of Korean language and literature. The curriculum is divided into Korean linguistics, classical Korean literature, and modern Korean literature.
What type of language is Korean?
Koreanic languages
Korean language/Language family
Why do we need to study Korean literature?
Studying Hangul, Korean script, can help you learn the basics. With a little effort and practice, you’ll be able to sing along to those K-pop songs or understand those Korean TV shows without subtitles. This will also help you gain more insight into a fascinating society and country with a long, rich history.
How is Korean language different from English?
Grammar – Verb/Tense: Korean is an agglutinative language. This means, for example, that verb information such as tense, mood and the social relation between speaker and listener is added successively to the end of the verb. This is in contrast to English which makes extensive use of auxiliaries to convey verb meaning.
What do we learn in Korean Literature?
The main areas are divided into Korean Literature and Korean Linguistics. Korean Literature is composed of classical literature including; poetry, prose, literature history and Chinese culture in Korea of the traditional age, as well as modern literature including; poems, novels, plays and criticism.
What makes Korean Literature unique?
The development of Korean Literature is quite unique due to the creation of a complete new language and writing system by the great King Sejong in 1446, the hangul. A tension always existed between those preferring hanmun, Chinese characters and those trying to give its value to the Korean language.
Does Korean have grammar?
Like many Asian languages, the grammar is quite different from English. But like the grammar of any language, Korean grammar follows rules and sentence structure that makes sense. In fact, Korean grammar is pretty straightforward.
What is the difference between linguistics and literature?
The key difference between linguistics and literature is that linguistics refers to the systematic study of a language whereas literature can be defined as the study of written works within a language.
What are the differences between English and Korean?
The differences between English and Korean. Several English consonant sounds do not exist in Korean. The most significant of these are the /θ/ and /ð/ sounds in words such as then, thirteen and clothes, the /v/ sound, which is produced as a /b/, and the /f/ sound which leads, for example, to phone being pronounced pone.
What is the difference between linguistics and philology?
On the other hand linguistics is a branch of study that deals with languages. It is a comparative study of languages. Linguistics is a branch of study wherein you make a historical study of languages. It is otherwise called as comparative philology.
What is the writing style of the Korean language?
Hangul can be written horizontally or vertically, with the horizontal, Latin style much more favoured. Koreans are exposed in their daily lives to the Latin script and therefore have no particular difficulties with the English writing system. Phonology: Korean is a syllable timed language in which individual word stress is insignificant.