Even though I grew up surrounded by Korean culture, I've never learned about the differences between the Korean language in South Korea and that of North Korea. I've heard from my mom that my grandfather was forced to leave his family in North Korea in order to move down to South Korea, so I think this would be a good opportunity to learn more about the history and how the separation influenced the language. For my final presentation, I may want to dive a bit deeper into the spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation differences between North and South Korea. As I research, I think the phonetic transcriptions we learned about in class would help.
This is a table of some words that North and South Korea pronounce differently.
And this is another table that gives some examples of the grammatical differences.
I think it's interesting to see how the language in both countries changed and developed over time.
Other topics I might want to do for my presentation are food, dialects, and maybe the differences between the Korean language of the past and today.
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