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North Korea has completely discontinued Hanja
- Just to clarify, South Korea officially still uses Hanja characters, although generally just for disambiguation or stylistic reasons. North Korea has completely discontinued Hanja.
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Since June 1949, Hanja have not officially been used in North Korea, and, in addition, most texts are now most commonly written horizontally instead of vertically.
Jun 22, 2016 · As I understand, 한자 (Hanja) was no longer in use in 북한 (DPRK, aka North Korea) by the end of the Korean War, and upheld this way as the regime wants to maintain a monolithic culture among its people.
The script slowly gave way to hangul-only usage in North Korea by 1949, while it continues in South Korea to a limited extent. However, with the decrease in hanja education, the number of hanja in use has slowly dwindled, and in the twenty-first century, very few hanja are used at all.
While Japanese has a bunch of additional benefits of using Kanji over Kana (i.e. shorter sentences, more homophones, etc.), I feel like the benefits Korean can get from Hanja, though more marginal than Japanese, are still great enough to justify their usage.
Both North Korea and South Korea then attempted to “purify” their languages by replacing sino-Korean words with native Korean words, and by replacing their writing entirely with Hangul. The North pushed harder for this, practically outlawing the use of Hanja.
Both in North and South Korea, the demise of Hanja, whether slowly like South Korea, or in a swift motion like the North, has been brought about by dictators.
Jun 22, 2023 · Do Koreans still use Hanja? The answer is yes, although much less frequently than in the past. Hanja, the Korean name for Chinese characters, was once the primary writing system in Korea. However, it has now largely been replaced by Hangul, the Korean alphabet.
