한국학, 한국어, 한국어교육

Abstract

Korean Studies, Korean Language, and Korean Language Education Korean studies within Korea over the last a few decades has overexerted itself for ‘nation building’ and ‘modernity searching’. This is well demonstrated in the theories on ‘immanent capitalist development,’ ‘colonial modernization’ and the debates over ‘Confucian capitalism. Education of Korean literature and the Korean language has also something to do with such trend of Korean studies since there has been formed a strong tendency to normalize the Korean language ideologically. Moreover, in the process of establishing ‘a system of the Korean language’ there appeared the phenomena of power-orientedness and bureaucratization of the groups involved in research and education of the Korean language. From now on, however, the Korean language needs to be redefined as ‘common language of the Republic of Korea’ rather than ‘the mother tongue of the Korean ethnic group’ for the sake of the development of Korean studies. In addition, along with the growing national power of Korea and the increase in the number of Koreans residing abroad, we are obliged to explore the possibility for the Korean language to be born again from an ethnic language to a global language.