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South Korean
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English
Etymology
en :af South Korea -an + 1
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-South Korean.wav Southern England
Noun
South Korean
A citizen or resident of South Korea.
April 9, 2013 Andrei Lankov Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/opinion/stay-cool-call-north-koreas-bluff.html?_r=0 By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats. https://web.archive.org/web/20251107050353/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/opinion/stay-cool-call-north-koreas-bluff.html?_r=0 7 November 2025
Translations
person from or descended from South Korea
Armenian: hy հարավկորեացի
Asturian: ast surcoreanu m, ast surcoreana f
Catalan: ca sud-coreà m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 韓國人 Hánguórén
Corsican: co sudcoreanu m, co sudcureanu m, co sudcoreana f, co sudcureana f
Czech: cs Jihokorejec m, cs Jihokorejka f
Danish: da sydkoreaner
Dutch: nl Zuid-Koreaan m, nl Zuid-Koreaanse f
Esperanto: eo sudkoreo
Finnish: fi eteläkorealainen
French: fr Sud-Coréen m, fr Sud-Coréenne f
Galician: gl surcoreano m
Georgian: ka სამხრეთ კორეელი, ka სამხრეთკორეელი
German: de Südkoreaner m, de Südkoreanerin f
Greek: el Νοτιοκορεάτης m, el Νοτιοκορεάτισσα f
Hindi: hi दक्षिण कोरियाई m f
Hungarian: hu dél-koreai
Icelandic: is Suður-Kóreumaður m, is Suður-Kóreubúi m
Indonesian: id orang Korea Selatan
Italian: it sudcoreano m, it sudcoreana f
Japanese: ja 韓国人 かんこくじん, Kankokujin
Javanese: jv wong Koréa Kidul
Korean: ko 한국 사람, ko 한국인, ko 우리나라 사람
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb sørkoreaner m
Nynorsk: nn sørkorean m, nn sørkoreanar m
Occitan: oc sud-corean m, oc sud-coreana f
Polish: pl Koreańczyk m, pl Koreanka f
Portuguese: pt sul-coreano m, pt sul-coreana f
Romanian: ro sud-coreean m, ro sud-coreeană f, ro sud-coreeancă f
Russian: ru южнокоре́ец m, ru южнокорея́нка f
Slovak: sk Juhokórejčan m, sk Juhokórejčanka f
Spanish: es surcoreano m, es surcoreana f
Swedish: sv sydkorean c
Turkish: tr Güney Koreli, tr Güney Kore
Ukrainian: uk південнокоре́єць m, uk південнокоре́янка f
Adjective
South Korean -
Of, from, or pertaining to South Korea or the South Korean people.
Tom Voelk Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/automobiles/autoreviews/review-hyundai-elantra-offers-fewer-curves-but-a-better-ride.html 2016-04-28 The South Korean brand is after a more sophisticated and — ahem — mature look. https://web.archive.org/web/20220616132752/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/automobiles/autoreviews/review-hyundai-elantra-offers-fewer-curves-but-a-better-ride.html 16 June 2022
Translations
of South Korea
Armenian: hy հարավկորեական
Asturian: ast surcoreanu
Belarusian: be паўднёвакарэ́йскі
Bulgarian: bg южнокоре́йски
Catalan: ca sud-coreà
Czech: cs jihokorejský
Danish: da sydkoreansk
Dutch: nl Zuid-Koreaans
Esperanto: eo sudkorea
Finnish: fi eteläkorealainen
French: fr sud-coréen
Galician: gl surcoreano
German: de südkoreanisch
Greek: el νοτιοκορεατικός
Haitian Creole: ht sidkoreyen
Hindi: hi दक्षिण कोरियाई
Hungarian: hu dél-koreai
Icelandic: is suðurkóreskur
Indonesian: id Korea Selatan
Italian: it sudcoreano
Japanese: ja 韓国の かんこくの, Kankoku no
Javanese: jv Koréa Kidul
Korean: ko 한국 한국의, ko 남한 남한의, ko 남조선 남조선의 North Korea
Macedonian: mk јужнокорејски
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb sørkoreansk
Nynorsk: nn sørkoreansk
Occitan: oc sud-corean
Polish: pl południowokoreański
Portuguese: pt sul-coreano
Romanian: ro sud-coreean
Russian: ru южнокоре́йский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh јужноко̀ре̄јскӣ
Latin: sh južnokòrējskī
Slovak: sk juhokórejský
Slovene: sl južnokorejski
Spanish: es surcoreano
Swedish: sv sydkoreansk
Turkish: tr Güney Koreli
Ukrainian: uk південнокоре́йський
Welsh: cy De-Coreaidd
Proper noun
South Korean
en rare The version of en Korean Q9176 spoken in South Korea.
en North Korean#Proper noun
en 1989 Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) 500 Wellington V. R. Ward, Government Printer 12064 https://books.google.com/books?id=Of4cK33cVBUC&q=%22South+Korean%22 191255532 The Minister should get in with the 170 000 000 people in Indonesia and the more than 40 000 000 people in South Korea. He knows the size of the populations in those countries. He should go there. New Zealand should have an education system that comprehends where it should be going. Government members should stop messing around and telling New Zealanders that they must speak Maori and English. People should be told to speak South Korean and Japanese, and they should be told to speak of the twenty-first century proposition—the Asian Pacific region.
en 2006 Hae Yeon Choo Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean Settlers in Contemporary South Korea Madison, Wis. w:University of Wisconsin--Madison 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=ImNMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22speaking+South+Korean%22 70215497 Besides South Korean accent class, Hye Jin, a volunteer teacher at Hanawon told me that in their weekly program, all the North Korean settler participants were required to use South Korean accents and expressions, because the team leader insisted it was important for the participants to practice speaking South Korean.
en 2025 Johanes Johanes; Jessica Jessica Character Design Development for the Visualization of the Transnational Identity Narrative between South Korea and Indonesia Lucia Rini Sugiarti; Wafda Vivit Izziana; Ardiani Ika Sulistyawati; Tatas Transinata Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Environment Diversity (ICOSEND 2024) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research 905 Paris Atlantis Press 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=00hKEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 978-2-38476-365-8 2731-8060 In life as an immigrant, for Tini and Wina, the most memorable places were the immigration office and the hospital. In those places, everyone was forced to speak South Korean so they could explain their circumstances and background.
Further reading
South Korean standard language
en Nationalities People