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Many Chinese of Korean descent have ancestral roots and family ties in the Hamgyong region of North Korea and speak the Hamgyŏng dialect of Korean according to North Korean conventions. [32] However, since South Korea has been more prolific in exporting its entertainment culture, more Korean Chinese broadcasters have been using Seoul dialect.
The earliest records of Korean history are written in Chinese characters called hanja. Even after the invention of hangul, Koreans generally recorded native Korean names with hanja, by translation of meaning, transliteration of sound, or even combinations of the two. Furthermore, the pronunciations of the same character are somewhat different ...
Korean Chinese, also called Chaoxianzu [9] (Chinese: 朝鲜族; Korean: 조선족; RR: Joseonjok), is the Korean ethnic minority group in China. They are one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups by the Government of China and the Chinese Communist Party .
In the contemporary era, Sino-Korean vocabulary has continued to grow in South Korea, where the meanings of Chinese characters are used to produce new words in Korean that do not exist in Chinese. By contrast, North Korean policy has called for many Sino-Korean words to be replaced by native Korean terms. [6]
One common one is hanguk hwagyo (Korean) or lühan huaqiao (Mandarin), meaning "Chinese staying in Korea". [11] The Korean reading is often shortened to hwagyo (also spelled huakyo), [12] which simply means "overseas Chinese" but in English literature typically refers specifically to the overseas Chinese of Korea.
Korean Chinese in Korea, also called Chaoxianzu in Korea (Korean: 재한조선족, romanized: Jaehan Joseonjok, Chinese: 在韩朝鲜族; pinyin: Zàihán Cháoxiǎnzú) are Chaoxianzu (Chinese nationals of Korean ethnicity) who live in Korea, primarily South Korea, with a visa or after having changed their nationality.
Korea and China relations are extensive and several millennia old with much cultural trade and thought transferring into Korea from China, with parts of Korea having also been subsumed by Chinese rule since 109 BC, as well as partaking in several military confrontations. [115]
"Korea" is the modern spelling of "Corea", a name attested in English as early as 1614. [5] [6] "Corea" is derived from the name of the ancient kingdom of Goryeo. [7]Korea was transliterated as Cauli in The Travels of Marco Polo, [8] of the Chinese 高麗 (MC: Kawlej, [9] mod.