The 1988 Olympic Games in South Korea were held in Seoul, South Korea, but why is there no word "Seoul" now? I believe that there must be many people who have an impression of the word "Seoul" but can't find it now. This is because "Seoul" is related to "Han", although the name of Seoul comes from the "Han River" on the edge of the city, but it is because it carries a "Han" character, it will be erased by Korea. This incident was the same in 2005, when south Korea was determined to break with the Chinese characters, the "All People Go to Chinese Characters" movement. In 2005, overnight, "Seoul" was erased from The Korean text, and the word "Seoul" ceased to exist and was replaced by the name of The new capital of South Korea, "Seoul." In order to express its determination, South Korea also officially announced to the world in January 2005 that "Seoul" would no longer be recognized by South Korea, and that "Seoul" would be the capital of South Korea forever.
To say that this "Seoul" is also unlucky, from 1394, it was called "Seoul" by the emperor of Korea at that time, and after 600 years, it was renamed "Seoul", and if the ancestors of the Koreans knew this, they would be angry and sit up from the coffin. In fact, "Seoul" is not the first to suffer in the "all people to remove Chinese characters" movement. As early as 50 years ago, that is, in 1948, in order to show its attitude and be a good brother of the United States, South Korea made up its mind to replace the Chinese characters used throughout the country into Korean. At that time, the South Korean government stipulated that official documents must be written in Korean. Since then, this movement to remove Chinese characters has been out of control. In 1970, South Korean President Park Chung-hee imposed a ban on teaching Chinese characters to schools.
Then this is very embarrassing, everyone who does not know much about Korean history may think that It may be troublesome for Korean to go to Chinese characters, but vietnam is not successful? South Korea may also succeed! But South Korea is different, he and Vietnam are completely different. Because from the Western Han Dynasty, that is, more than 2,000 years ago, now the ancestors of Koreans , the "Kingdom of Korea" began to use Chinese characters as official characters. This 2,000-year history has influenced South Korea into all aspects of Koreans, and what life, culture, etiquette, and customs are all influenced by Chinese characters. Let's take the simplest example, although South Korea has changed the name of the capital now, we can see from the Korean flag that South Korea's reform is not ideal.
So is the process of changing Chinese characters in Korea difficult? The answer is, it's quite hard, and it's not working out yet! Earlier, we mentioned that Chinese characters have been used in Korea for more than 2,000 years, and this Korean language was compiled by the king of Korea after more than 1,400 years of use of Chinese characters. To put it simply, at that time, this so-called "Korean" is actually the "pinyin" we are learning now, and the original words of others are "Chinese characters are not easy to learn, and the common people can't learn it, so I will add a pinyin to you and go back to study it myself." This is the true face of the current "Korean", and The Korean is this thing. Of course, The Korean language can spread among the people, so that some folk elites can recognize, but also thanks to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and other types of Chinese novels, because the Threshold of Chinese characters is high, people with low culture can only look at the Pinyin of Korean to relieve boredom, after all, such popular things as novels, as long as they can probably read and understand, they can appreciate the fun inside.
Of course, it is also because this king of Korea, when creating "Pinyin", forgot to add "tone", so that koreans are now confused by The Korean language. Because it has no tone, so in South Korea, words such as "water release" and "waterproof" that need to distinguish tones are completely indistinguishable (even if the tone is the same, the meaning is different, they can't understand it). In 1948, there were still many "Chinese character" signs in Seoul, and now such signs are gone, but the Korean language is still not good. For example, on the IDENTITY card of a Korean, in order to let others understand what name they have given their children, they must have a "Chinese name" as a note, otherwise, people may really not know what the baby is called. After all, if "Wang Ba" is called that, the joke will be big.
In addition, they have never been exposed to Chinese, and after 1970, Korean children who can only learn Korean and have never seen Chinese characters are miserable. Because, in addition to the trivialities in life, the most important thing in the folk is marriage and funeral. In South Korea, guests write their names in Chinese characters to show solemnity and respect when giving wedding gifts. But now, people who have not learned Chinese characters have grown up, and when they get married, either the bride and groom are embarrassed because they can't read Chinese characters, or the guests can't write Chinese characters, and they can't understand Korean. Cases like this abound in South Korea. In addition to being social, teachers in Korean schools are also crazy. After all, 2000 years have come, South Korea's cultural relics, history books are written in Chinese characters, and now these newly enrolled college students, doctoral students, looking at the historical documents do not know a word, what else to learn, first have to complete the knowledge of Chinese characters to do.
Now, the national movement to remove Chinese characters in South Korea has gradually stopped, first, because China is gradually becoming stronger, and second, because it is really difficult to live without Chinese characters. Now Korean primary school students can already start to learn Chinese characters, to junior high school began to formally teach Chinese characters, Chinese character level certificate, is one of the important skills of job seekers, many large companies will require employees to be able to do Chinese characters. South Korean official organizations are also "applying" internationally for festivals that belong to the mainland. All of this requires knowledge of Chinese characters.
Therefore, some things are not said to be cut off, after all, Chinese characters are used in Korea for more than 2,000 years. Moreover, Chinese culture is vast and profound, can it be replaced by a Korean that can be replaced by a Korean? In the cultural connotation, there is no one in the world who can fight. Finally, the Korean language that Korea wants to use as an alternative to Chinese characters is only a tool for translating Chinese characters, and There is no mature script in Korea, only oral Korean. The idea of a Korean alternative to Chinese characters is too simple, and it is ultimately a delusion of "unattainable".
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