Korean novels in korean language4/6/2024 ![]() South Korea is one of our largest East Asian trading partners. North Korea was declared a palpable threat in 2003 after they tested nuclear weapons despite the disapproval of the United Nations. Korean has been listed as a critical language by the American State Department because of our strategic business and security interests in the Korean-speaking world, as well as a heritage language due to the number of American citizens of Korean heritage. The total number of speakers is 72 million (Grimes 1992). Other communities are found in Singapore, Thailand, Guam, and Paraguay. There are approximately half a million speakers in Japan and Russia, as well as significant numbers in the United States (over 600,000) with large communities on the west coast and in New York. Korean is also spoken by almost 2 million people in China, mainly in provinces bordering North Korea. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million speakers and in the Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea) there are 42 million speakers. Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. ![]()
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