October 14, 2008 at 7:51 am (Japan and Korea, Japan FAQs and SAQs, Japan links, Japanese books/ Books about Japan, Japanese education, Japanese immigration, Japanese international relations, Japanese language, Japanese minorities, Japanese politics, Japanese television, Lives of young koreans in Japan, NHK)
Tags: politically correct
…ハングル being, properly, only the name of the Korean alphabet.
”There is no politically neutral way of describing the Korean language in Japanese, and NHK feared criticism from South-leaning Koreans if it described the language as Chosen-go… or from North-leaning Koreans if it called it Kankoku-go…” Read the rest of this entry »
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