This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language. See
Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system. Korean (, see below) is the official
language of both
North Korea and
South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in
China. There are about 80 million Korean speakers, with large groups in various
Post-Soviet states, as well as in other diaspora populations in
China,
Australia, the
United States,
Canada,
Brazil,
Japan, and more recently, the
Philippines.
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