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North and South Korean Language Split: Can They Understand Each Other? Posted by Tony Kitchen on Nov 6, 2015
Over sixty years after North Korea and South Korea agreed to a ceasefire (along with the United States and United Nations participants), the two countries have taken different political pasts, clearly. But this has transferred into the linguistic fear as well, with North Korean defectors struggling to adjust to South Korean hangul. Imagine trying to adjust…