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Peer reviewedHannas, William C. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1995
Examines Korea's experience with abandoning Chinese characters for an all-phonetic script. Despite efforts to replace characters with "all-hangul" in South Korea, reform opponents reinstated Chinese characters. In North Korea, a similar reform was also rescinded. Certain "linguistic" problems need to be solved for the reform to…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Chinese, Korean, Orthographic Symbols
