South Korea has always coveted China's traditional culture, from Chinese characters, the Dragon Boat Festival to the Mid-Autumn Festival, more and more traditional culture is targeted by it, and the Korean side even wants to take it for itself. Not only that, but it also tried to apply for the relics of Chinese characters and threatened that chinese characters originated in South Korea, but it is contradictory that on the one hand, South Korea competes with the mainland for the right to speak in traditional Chinese culture, on the other hand, it tries to "de-Chinese characterization" and renames the capital Seoul as Seoul. Why is the South Korean side so contradictory? In fact, the fundamental reason lies in its cultural inferiority.
Although South Korea is already a developed country, it is not a strong country, and it still has to look at its own face, but this does not affect its own belief that it is ahead of China, and under this attitude, the South Korean side naturally cannot bear to be affected by China's traditional culture. Therefore, he wants to abandon Chinese characters and vigorously promote Korean, but the more he does so, the more he proves that he really can't do without Chinese characters. What would Korea look like without Chinese characters? The most intuitive point is that people will not be able to distinguish "who they are", the ID card will be directly "invalidated", and all kinds of chaos will follow.
Although South Korea has its own script, but because it belongs to the phonetic characters, it is far less intuitive and convenient than the phonetic characters of Chinese characters, to put it bluntly, the so-called Korean is just pinyin. The Korean language has only 21 vowels and 19 consonants, and this is less than 50 pinyin, which is simply impossible to combine enough different names, and the repetition rate in South Korea is also very serious. If you don't rely on Chinese characters, most people can only share one name, and the ID card is useless, so to avoid this situation, until now every Korean must have Chinese name on the ID card.
A small ID card in South Korea can not get rid of the dependence on Chinese characters, not to mention its history books, laws also need Chinese character labels, once the Chinese characters are lost, history books and legal documents will not be understood. In fact, even if there are still Chinese character labels, many Koreans still can't understand their own history books and legal contents, because they don't know Chinese characters, and they can't really read the meaning of pinyin alone. This also positively reflects the breadth and profundity of Chinese characters, and ideographic characters can clearly and intuitively distinguish the meaning of words at a glance.
In fact, Korea has always used Chinese characters as its own script from the very beginning, since ancient times, but because only nobles and rich people in the country could learn Chinese characters, in order to popularize the script among the people, King Sejong invented the Korean language. However, there are still many deficiencies in Korean, but the conceited Koreans insist on taking Korean as the mainstream and begin to vigorously "de-Hanzi", but the more they rely on it, the more they can't hang on to their faces, so they decide to compete, and this may be the reason why South Korea wants to apply for Chinese characters.
(Text/Xi Le)