South Korean

plural South Koreans

1. A citizen or resident of South Korea.

   By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.

   2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times

1. not comparableOf, from, or pertaining to South Korea or the South Korean people.

   The South Korean brand is after a more sophisticated and — ahem — mature look.

   2016 April 28, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride”, in The New York Times

1. rareThe version of Korean spoken in South Korea.

   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.

   2025, Johanes Johanes, Jessica Jessica, “Character Design Development for the Visualization of the Transnational Identity Narrative between South Korea and Indonesia”, in Lucia Rini Sugiarti, Wafda Vivit Izziana, Ardiani Ika Sulistyawati, Tatas Transinata, editors, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Environment Diversity (ICOSEND 2024) (Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research; 905), Paris: Atlantis Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 12

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   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.

   1989, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), volume 500, Wellington: V. R. Ward, Government Printer, →OCLC, page 12064

   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.

   2006, Hae Yeon Choo, Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean Settlers in Contemporary South Korea, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin--Madison, →OCLC, page 42