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<p>Foreign Policy</p>
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<p>South Korea Wants to Launch a 'National Language Purification' Campaign</p>
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<p>Wednesday marked the 567th birthday of the Korean alphabet. And South Korea's prime minister, Chung Hong-won, chose a rather unconventional way to honor the occasion, known colloquially as Hangul Day: delivering a speech deploring young South Koreans' use
of slang, foul language, improperly conjugated verbs, and other "verbal violence." He then called for a "national language purification" campaign to "remedy this bad culture."
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/09/south_korea_wants_to_launch_a_national_language_purification_campaign">http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/09/south_korea_wants_to_launch_a_national_language_purification_campaign</a></p>
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