Korean has been influenced by Chinese and incorporates many English loanwords known as Konglish. After World War 2 and the Korean War, more foreign cultures entered South Korea. Konglish words entered the Korean language through Japanese occupation and by South Koreans adapting English words to Korean phonetic rules. This causes English words to be pronounced differently in Korean with added vowels or changed consonant sounds. Konglish also impacts sentence structure and vocabulary meaning compared to English.

2. HISTORY
• Korean is the native language of about 80 million people in
North and South Korea.
• Korean has been heavily influenced by Chinese.

3. WHAT IS KONGLISH?
Konglish:
- the use of English words / words derived from English
words in a Korean context.
- often used by South Koreans.
- Words and phrases borrowed from English or other
languages.

4. HISTORY OF KONGLISH
• Appear around World War II (1910 -1945) = Korea was once a Japanese colony.
• Some English loanwords appears in Korean language through the Japanese.
• These English words were transformed to Korean trough the phonetic system of
Korean.
• After the Korean War, more foreign culture started to flow into South Korea.

5. PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES
Sound Example Pronounce
f = p Coffee Coppee
v = b Vacation Bacation
θ (th as in “third”) =
s
Think Sink
ð (th as in “the”) = d This Dis
dʒ (zh as in vision)
and z
Zip
Pizza
Jip
Pijja

7. • Korean phonetically rules allow for words to end only in vowels or a
select few consonants.
• Korean learners of English have a tendency to add a vowel to an
English word that ends in a consonant that could not occur at the
end of a Korean word.
• Example: no words end with the “s” sound in Korean.
- “Englishee,” and “shirtsuh,” instead of “English” and “shirts.”

8. HOMOLOGOUS PAIRS
Homologous Pairs in English and
Korean
Unvoiced Voiced
K/ㅋ G/ㄱ
P/ㅍ B/ㅂ
CH/ㅊ J/ㅈ
T/ㅌ D/ㄷ
F V
S Z
SH Z
BRITISH KONGLISH
Pick Up Pig Up
Half Hav
Water Wader
Cheese Chizue
Example:

9. • In addition to the pronunciation of certain letters, the consonant blends such
as the final "ch", are often heard with an extra stressed short vowel "e" at the
end of the word.
• Example:
- "orange" pronounced as "orang-e”.
- “ I have” pronounced as “I hav-e”.
• Past tense verbs:
- “washed” pronounces as “wash-ed”.

10. DIFFICULTY IN SENTENCE STRUCTURE
• They can only string very basic subject-verb-object agreement
without the all-important conjunctions such as "and", "but", "the" &
"or".
• Pluralizing certain objects are also absent unless in very rare cases.
• Example: "I want to study English with you“ = "You, me English
study."

11. DIFFERENTIAL USE OF VOCABULARY
BY LANGUAGE
• Does “see” mean the same thing in English as it does in Korean?
Answer is: Sometimes.
• “see” in Korean means “view”.
• In Korean, one cannot literally say “I’d like to see the manager,” but
“I want to talk to the manager.”

12. • Native speakers of English use a ton of idioms and metaphors when they
speak.
• For example, a Korean learner of English learns the word “up,” which is a
direction toward an elevated position.
• But “shut up” doesn’t mean to close something above you; “beat up” doesn’t
mean to hit something above you.
• In Korean, there are just a few; like break up, crack up, trip up, jack up, etc.

13. *in Korean, fighting means Good luck.

14. THANK YOU 