Chinese characters had a high status in ancient Korea, but why did Korea insist on Chinese characters?

Chinese characters have been used for a long time in the Korean peninsula and occupy an extremely important position. This is mainly because the Korean Peninsula is a subordinate country of China for a long time, and it is more advanced than the Korean Peninsula in culture, science and technology and comprehensive national strength. Learning from advanced countries has always been everyone's idea of governing the country, so Chinese characters can exist on the Korean peninsula for a long time.

With the end of World War II, various regions began to "de-affiliate" and "de-colonize" and began to use their own national languages, so Korean became the main language of the country on the Korean Peninsula. This situation is not unique to the Korean peninsula. Vietnamese used to use Chinese characters for a long time. After independence, they began to use their own national languages, while many areas in China have long used Japanese. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, it began to change into Chinese. After all, using Chinese characters is also a kind of cultural aggression.

In fact, the two countries on the Korean peninsula, North Korea and South Korea, are mainly Koreans, not just South Korea. Korean used to be Baekje, Silla and ancient Korean, influenced by Fuyu. Although North Korea and South Korea belong to the same nation, they belong to different countries. Therefore, although both countries claim to use "Korean", the Korean languages of the two countries are also very different. South Korea is based on the Korean language in the capital Seoul. On the other hand, North Korea has established a Korean language standard based on Korean in the capital Pyongyang. There are some great differences in pronunciation and loanwords between the two countries, but in general, the two languages are basically the same and can understand each other's languages.

Korean script, called Proverbs, is a kind of phonography, a kind of square phonetic script that draws lessons from Chinese characters, and it is phonography like Latin, Chinese phonetic system and Japanese pseudonyms (Hiragana and Katakana). /kloc-In the 5th century, King Sejong of the Korean Dynasty sent someone to complete the book "Correcting the Voice of the People" and created Korean Pinyin. King Sejong created Korean characters mainly because Chinese characters and Korean belong to different language families, and Chinese characters are relatively more complicated.