Re: Q.'s about hanja

[Thomas Chan]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> > 2) Is it true that hanja have been abolished in North Korea? When did this
> > happen?
> 
> They were abolished in the sense that the schools ceased to teach them.  This
> decision has recently (last 2 years or so) been reversed, however.

Does the reversal of that decision have anything to do with the recent
timing of publication of character set standards KPS 9566-97 
(http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/202.pdf; also described in Ken Lunde's
1999 book) and KPS 10721-2000, both of which contain hanja?


Thomas Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]