Korean Language Society
{{Short description|Society for Korean language research}}
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|hangul=한글 학회|hanja=한글學會|rr=Hangeul Hakhoe|mr=Han'gŭl Hakhoe
| image = Hangeul hakhoe Korean Language Society 20180915 130120.jpg
|caption = The headquarters of Korean Language Society in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
}}
The Korean Language Society ({{Korean|hangul=한글 학회}}) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. It promotes hangul exclusive writing.
Hangul Day was founded in 1926 during the Japanese occupation of Korea by members of the Korean Language Society, whose goal was to preserve the Korean language during a time of rapid Japanization.{{cite book|last1=Lee|first1=Peter H.|last2=Bary|first2=William Theodore De|title=Sources of Korean Tradition: From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries|year=1997|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231120302|page=321|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7keD_k8xg4EC&pg=PA321|accessdate=3 October 2016|language=en}} The society established a Korean orthography ({{Korean|hangul=한글 맞춤법 통일안|labels=no}}) in 1933.
Many of its early members were imprisoned and tortured in 1942 when Korea was under Japanese imperial rule.
See also
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External links
- [http://www.hangeul.or.kr/ Korean Language Society's website] (Korean)
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Category:Cultural organizations based in South Korea
Category:Language advocacy organizations
Category:Korean independence movement organizations
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