Inside A North Korean Passport

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• Korea Beat
  9:51 pm on October 29th, 2008 1

  They spell “passport” differently.. ?? in the south, ?? in the north.

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• Guitard
  9:09 am on October 30th, 2008 2

  Korea Beat: They spell “passport” differently. ?? in the south, ?? in the north.

  Many Korean words that begin with the silent consonant character “?” in the South are spelled with a “?” in North Korea. So the name “?” becomes “?,” and in this case “??” is spelled “??.”

  I think it’s partly dialectic and partly a case of the North wanting to distinguish itself from the South.

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• Korea Beat
  10:29 am on October 30th, 2008 3

  What I’ve heard is that the South changed its spelling rules sometime after World War II. But I’ve never heard of any reason for the change. There have been other orthographic changes over the years too, for instance ???? used to be ???? (which gets over two million hits on Google).

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• Lord-Gore
  12:46 pm on June 24th, 2009 4

  they have made too many threats recently. they need to be destroyed before the whole world feels the consequences. 2 stage plan, 1st stage deploy bio/chemical weapons to soften up their military simultaneously while the chems are hitting send up a nuclear barrage.tear that shit hole of a country a new one, they will never change. better save the rest of the planet while were ahead and put out the north korean civi’s out of their misery.if the koreans pursue further action or the economy drops further im heading to the mountain/forests of northern california, your all wemcome to join me and my men

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