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The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul [a] or Hangeul [b] in South Korea (English: / ˈ h ɑː n ɡ uː l / HAHN-gool; [2] Korean: 한글; Korean pronunciation: [ha(ː)n.ɡɯɭ] ⓘ) and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea (조선글; North Korean pronunciation [tsʰo.sʰɔn.ɡɯɭ]), is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
Korean Genome Project (Korea1K) is the largest genome sequencing project in Korea, first launched in 2015 as part of the Genome Korea in Ulsan.As of 2021, the project has sequenced over 10,000 human genomes and is the first large-scale data base for constructing a genetic map and diversity analysis of Koreans.
Thirty-four years later, on December 31, 1988, the Culture Protection Act of 1952 was replaced by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea Act. The ceiling of membership is 150. The present Academy members total 134 as of June, 2006. These include 62 in the Humanities and Social Science Division and 72 in the Natural Science ...
Kangnido, a Korean-made map of the world was created in 1402 by Kim Sa-hyeong (김사형; 金士衡), Yi Mu (이무; 李茂) and Yi Hoe (이회; 李撓). The map was created in the second year of the reign of Taejong of Joseon. The map was made by combining Chinese, Korean and Japanese maps.
Korean emigration to the U.S. was known to have begun as early as 1903, but the Korean American community did not grow to a significant size until after the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965; as of 2017, excluding the undocumented and uncounted, roughly 1.85 million Koreans emigrants and people of Korean descent live in the ...
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Korean language: . Korean – East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people. [1] It is a member of the Koreanic language family and is the official and national language of North Korea and South Korea, which form Korea.
The Korea Citation Index (KCI, 한국학술지인용색인) is a non-commercial South Korean citation index operated by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF, 한국연구재단). Though it mainly covers researches written in Korean language , some of English language journals are also indexed in KCI.