Recovering Cultural Identity and Refreshing Chinese Flavors: Four Language Policies in the Republic of Korea 1948-2010

This paper attempts to examine how the language policies in Korea since 1948, when the republic was founded, are related with the Chinese language in the context of globalization. It will point out that old Chinese flavor has been diluted in the Korean language in the past six decades while new Chinese flavor has been added to the language through changing the Chinese name of Seoul, reading Chinese proper names in Mandarin pronunciations, exclusively using Hang��l, the Korean alphabet, in writing and so on. It notes also that the Korean language policies have been moving toward globalization