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  Seoul - Galbijim
Seoul (서울특별시, 서울特別市 - Seoul.special.city) is the capital of the Republic of Korea.
Seoul is located in the northwest of the country, south of the DMZ, and east of the city of Incheon where Incheon International Airport is located.
Seoul is one of the few areas in Korea that does not have corresponding hanja (Chinese character) to its pronunciation.
wiki.galbijim.com /Seoul   (1446 words)

  
 korea seoul information
Seoul is the capital of South Korea and was, until 1945, the capital of all of Korea.
Seoul is located in the northwest of the country south of the DMZ, on the Han River.
Seoul has nine subway lines, nearly 200 bus routes and six major highways that interlink every district of the city with one another and with the neighboring metropolitan area, which is the world's most populous.
www.global-terror.com /korea/korea-seoul.htm   (1708 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Korean dialects
Seoul dialect is the standard dialect in South Korea, and is spoken in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi in South Korea, as well as around Kaesŏng in North Korea.
P'yŏng'an dialect is the standard dialect in North Korea, and is spoken in P'yŏngyang, the P'yŏng'an region, and Chagang Province.
Koryo-mar, usually identified as a descendant of the Hamgyŏng dialect, is spoken by the Koryo-saram, ethnic Koreans in the former USSR.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Korean_dialects   (297 words)

  
 Seoul Resource Page - seoul korea
Seoul is located at 37°35′ N 127°0′ E. Seoul is located in the northwest of the country, south of the DMZ, on the Han River.
Seoul has nine subway lines, nearly 200 bus routes and six major highways that interlink every district seoul tower of the city with one another and with the neighbouring metropolitan area, which is the world's most populous.
Seoul is also linked seoul escorts to several other seoul guest house major South Korean cities pictures of seoul seoul regenerative medicine news korea by the KTX bullet train, Asia's fastest high-speed train, making commuting between cities extremely convenient for commuters and domestic tourists.
www.forensico.com /For-List_of_Colleges_San_-_Sn-/Seoul.html   (2668 words)

  
 Korean language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The standard language (pyojuneo or pyojunmal) of South Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul, and the standard for North Korea is based on the dialect spoken around P'yŏngyang.
One of the most notable differences between dialects is the use of stress: speakers of Seoul dialect use stress very little, and standard South Korean has a very flat intonation; on the other hand, speakers of Gyeongsang dialect have a very pronounced intonation that, to Western ears, often sounds European.
There is a very close connection between the dialects of Korean and the regions of Korea, since the boundaries of both are largely determined by mountains and seas.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Korean_language   (2993 words)

  
 Seoul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In common with the rest of South Korea, Seoul's climate is temperate and continental, despite the fact that South Korea is surrounded on three sides by water.
Seoul is divided into 25 gu (wards), which are sub-divided into 522 dong, which are sub-divided into 13,787 tong, which are further divided into 102,796 ban in total.
Seoul is also linked to several other major South Korean cities by the KTX bullet train which features a top speed of 300 km/h, making commuting between cities extremely convenient for commuters and domestic tourists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seoul   (2495 words)

  
 The Northern Region, Identity, and Culture in Korea
She received her Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 1999 and is the author of a number of books and articles, including Wóllamin úi saenghwal kyónghóm kwa chóngch'esóng [The Identity and Life Experiences of the Refugees from the North] published by Seoul National University Press in 1999.
The P'yŏngan dialect, however, had not gone through the palatalization well into the early part of the twentieth century, leaving a temporal gap of about 400 years between the palatalization process of the P'yŏngan dialect and that of other regional dialects.
Secondly, I demonstrate that the Phyengan dialect identity facts are better treated from the point of view of "language ideology," a relatively new interdisciplinary field that brings together linguistics, sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and anthropology to shed light on questions of language and identity.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~korea/koreaconference/conference_notes.html   (8725 words)

  
 Gyeonggi-do - Galbijim
In 1946, Seoul became a separately administered, provincial-level "Special City." That same year, the Soviet-controlled northern zone of Gyeonggi-do joined the northern half of Kangwŏn Province.
As the industrial hinterland of Seoul, agriculture in the province has largely given way to industry.
Incheon serves as Seoul's seaport and has Seoul's main international airport, Incheon International Airport.
wiki.galbijim.com /Gyeonggi-do   (591 words)

  
 Seoul Fast Facts
The Seoul Airport is 17 km from the city and can be contacted through tel: 822 660-2252 of fax: 822 663-8833.
Located at 126 59' E and 37 34' N, in the west central part of the Korean Peninsula, Seoul is both the capital and the heart of the Republic of Korea.
Six dialects of the Korean language exist: central, northwest, northeast, southeast, southwest and Cheju.
www.worldroom.com /pages/wrnsl/fastfacts/sl_fastfacts.phtml   (1003 words)

  
 Korean language Summary
In the early 2000s, there are two official dialects of the capitals of Seoul, South Korea, and P'yongyang, North Korea.
The two dialects are very similar and show only minor differences, as in the use of foreign loanwords.
These dialects are similar, and in fact all dialects except that of Jeju Island (see Jeju Dialect) are largely mutually intelligible.
www.bookrags.com /Korean_language   (4820 words)

  
 Korean as standart language
Among the most important changes, the disappearance of the medieval tones and phonetic changes in the central dialect under the influence of the southern dialects (in connection with the long-time political domination of South-based gentry) should be mentioned.
In the northern part of the peninsula, main dialect regions are northwest and northeast, official colloquial language standard of North Korean state (language of TV and radio anchors, etc.) being almost equally influenced by the two together and basically formed by the specific Pyongyang area way of pronunciation.
The less influential and most difficult to understand is very specific dialect of Cheju Island: it was almost mutually incomprehensible with major “mainland” dialects in pre-modern times, but, due to the mass media influence, is “diluted” enough with “standard” words and expressions to be more or less understood without special training now.
www.geocities.com /volodyatikhonov/korean.htm   (7440 words)

  
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When I moved from Busan to Seoul and moved to a new elementary school, I should have changed and fit my language identity as a speaker of the southeast dialect Korean, or Gyungsang-do dialect, into the Seoul dialect.
It sometimes was hard for classmates to understand the southeast dialect and to communicate with the older residents because of its strong accents.
My southeast dialect of Korean had to be given up in order to adjust into a community of Seoul dialect.
www.people.iup.edu /pftl/705/Essay3.doc   (1145 words)

  
 foniyo was barcoded at birth
As he takes her around Seoul, he tries to find a way of sending her back (arranging a plane ticket, etc.) and she can tell that something is awry.
He is obviously urbanized and culturally sophisticated (he speaks standard Seoul dialect whereas S maintains her local dialect) but he treats his mother with respect.
I have never been exposed to the modest neighborhoods in Seoul or Pusan, the two cities I have visited most frequently, and I was surprised by the standard of living that the couple maintains.
www.xanga.com /foniyo   (2670 words)

  
 I Remember. . .
It was a very big challenge for a 14 year old kid, because I had lived a very long time in Seoul.
One sunny day in April, I went to school; it was the first day at school there, and the first time to meet a country person.
Because there were many battles between three kingdoms at this time, an antipathy existed throughout other periods of history, and even now there are many differences, from dialect to even the way of thinking.
www.lclark.edu /~krauss/advwrf99/narr/narrjae.html   (790 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This study, which is part of the ongoing research of phonological variation and change in Seoul Korean, is based on some 70 speakers stratified by age, social status and sex.
Four different styles of speech were elicited -- two styles of natural speech: in-group speech and interview speech; and two styles of read speech: sentence reading and word-list reading.
In Y.P. Kim (eds.), A study of Southern and Northern Korean dialects.
www.ling.upenn.edu /~nagy/nwav/WWWabs/Kang.html   (499 words)

  
 "KOREAN"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When the Korea peninsula was unified by Silla in the seventh century, the Han language became the dominant dialect paving the way for the emergence of a homogeneous language.
Thus, the Silla capital, Kyongju, dialect was the standard dialect during the unified Silla period from the seventh century to the tenth century.
Though the dialect distinction of one region from the other is not drastic owing to the relatively small size of the Korean peninsula, each region has its own characteristic dialects.
ling.kgw.tu-berlin.de /Korean/Artikel01/Korean.htm   (6983 words)

  
 Korean
At the end of the 14th century, a Han-speaking group unified the peninsula, leading to the spread of its dialect throughout the Korean Peninsula.
There are two standard varieties of modern Korean: the Seoul dialect spoken in South Korea, and the Pyongyang dialect spoken in North Korea.
Despite the small size of the Korean Peninsula, there are many regional dialects within these two major divisions, all of them mutually intelligible.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Korean.html   (1338 words)

  
 Korean - Language Directory
modern standard Korean, which has been promoted since the 1930s, is based on a dialect spoken in Seoul and is written in a native Korean alphabet, called Han'gul, which was introduced in 1446.
The standard language (Pyojuneo or Pyojunmal) of South Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul, and the standard for North Korea is based on the dialect spoken around Pyongyang.
These dialects are similar, and in fact all dialects except that of Jeju (Cheju) Island are largely mutually intelligible.
language-directory.50webs.com /languages/korean.htm   (640 words)

  
 UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
Officially, there are two standard varieties of Korean in Korea: the Seoul dialect in South Korea and the Phyong'yang dialect in North Korea.
The dialects are distinguished and regulated by each country's national language policy.
The North Korean regional dialects are Hamkyong, Pyongan, Hwanghae.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=76&menu=004   (1460 words)

  
 Korean Information Center - korean girls
These dialects are similar, and in fact korean girl all dialects except that of Jeju Island are largely mutually intelligible.
The dialect spoken there is classified as a different language by some Korean linguists.
Length distinction is also decreasing; length distinction for all vowels can still be heard from older speakers, but many younger speakers do not always distinguish lengths consistently.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_H_-_L/Korean.html   (3040 words)

  
 The City of Pusan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Part of their unique culture is a dialect and inflection that is particular to the region.
The city is a major port city and is a bustling metropolitan area.
The city is about 5 hours by train or bus from Seoul and less than an hour by air.
www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/hpages/asiapage/pusan.htm   (66 words)

  
 Incheon Summary
Incheon Metropolitan City is a metropolitan city and major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul.
Incheon is sometimes regarded as part of the greater Seoul metropolitan area due to the close distance of the capital, and the fact that the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is linked to the Incheon Subway system.
Incheon International Airport, the main international airport for both South Korea and Seoul, is situated within Incheon's city limits.
www.bookrags.com /Incheon   (469 words)

  
 Korean Language
Early historical records indicate that at the dawn of the Christian era, two groups of languages were spoken in Manchuria and on the Korean Peninsula: the Northern or Puyo group and the southern or Han group.
Following the emergence of the Koryo Dynasty in the 10th Century, the national capitol was moved to the city of Kaesong and the Kaesong dialect became the national language standard.
There are a number of regional dialects within Korea, defined mostly by the variations in stress placed on certain syllables and words from region to region.
www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Kr/KrLAN0.htm   (287 words)

  
 South Korea: SOCIETY
Language: Korean is the national language and is spoken in a variety of local dialects generally coinciding with provincial boundaries.
The Seoul dialect is the basis for modern standard Korean.
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www.mongabay.com /reference/new_profiles/273sk.html   (1695 words)

  
 Seoul dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Seoul dialect is the basis of the standard dialect of Korean in South Korea.
It is spoken in the Seoul National Capital Area, which includes Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi.
Young Seoul dialect speakers tend to end interrogative sentences (questions) with -nya?
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seoul_Dialect   (179 words)

  
 K-ToBI (Korean ToBI) Labelling Conventions
Third, the AP initial tone in Seoul Korean is in general either L or H depending on the initial segment of an AP: H when the segment is aspirated or tense, but L otherwise.
For example, unlike Seoul Korean, the tonal pattern of an AP in the Chonnam dialect (Southwestern dialect of Korean) is LHL or HHL (Jun 1989, 1993, 1996, 1998), with the alternation of the AP initial tone being caused by the same principles as in Seoul.
Lee, Sook-hyang (1989) "Intonational domains of the Seoul dialect of Korean," a paper presented at the 117th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Syracuse, N.Y.; An abstract in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu /people/jun/ktobi/K-tobi.html   (6039 words)

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