Writing and Printing

Debate on the use of Korean mixed script

There has been much debate over the use of Chinese characters (domestically known as Hanja (漢字) in Korea) in Korean orthography, otherwise known as Korean mixed script (Korean: 한자 혼용; Hanja: 漢字混用; RR: hanja honyong). The questions surrounding the use and relevance of mixed script over Hangul exclusivity (한글 전용; 한글 專用; hangeul jeonyong) are still hotly contested topics to this day in Korea and garner the attention of many, as the issue concerns education from its earliest years to university. The debate itself is over whether Korean should be written with Hanja mixed into the text, or purely in Hangul (e.g. 大韓民國을~ vs. 대한민국을~). The debate also oftentimes centres around the education of Hanja in schools, the effects of which are also debated. It is a controversial debate which concerns the orthography, vocabulary, and other aspects of the written language.

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