Corea

[Doggiedog]

I heard that North Korea may change their name officially to Corea with a C for the next Olympics because they want to come before Japan.

How pathetic is that?

 

[Schadenfroh]

:beer:

 

[TMPadmin]

Honor and status are very important to some cultures. Or what they perceive as honor and status.

 

[whaleskinrug]

It's spelled that way on some older maps, although they were produced by the British and French.

 

[DurocShark]

I guess it doesn't really matter to Korea because they use characters, not letters. Heh

 

[hollowman]

Well, I don't think it's all that pathetic. It was originally Corea before Japan colonized Korea.. Japan made the change so Korea would be after Japan in Olympics. It's important to some cultures/nations.

 

Here I thought this was going to be a thread about Chick Corea.

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: RickyRoma
Here I thought this was going to be a thread about Chick Corea.

or Scientology or something.....

 

[308nato]

A turd by any other name is still fecal matter.

 

[BaboonGuy]

The Japanese invaded Korea a long while ago, you see among many Koreans there is a hostility for the Japanese. It doesn't exist among us modern day Korean youth, but some of our parents and more of our grandparents have a dislike for the Japanese. Because of the ways Koreans were treated and what happened to Korea after Japanese rule is probably why N. Korea wants to change their name.

 

[KenGr]

Originally posted by: hollowman
Well, I don't think it's all that pathetic. It was originally Corea before Japan colonized Korea.. Japan made the change so Korea would be after Japan in Olympics. It's important to some cultures/nations.

This is a popular theory, in Korea and other places, but it doesn't quite hold up to scrutiny.

Since Korean is a phonetic language with a unique alphabet, the Korean character which starts the word is usually romanized as either K or G (it comes from the ancient Koryo or Goryo kingdom). The K or hard C sound in Korean is never romanized as a C, only as a K. The original spelling Corea (or Coree) came from the early explorers who were French or Italian since the hard C sound is usually romanized as C in those languages, not K. In English it is romanized as K so, in the years before the Japanese occupation, it appeared as Korea or Corea, depending on whether the author was an English/German speaker or a romance language speaker. It may be that the Japanese found it convenient alphabetically to adapt the English version, but there is no clear record of this.

The "Corea" movement apparently has some popularity in both the North and the South but it is seriously inconsistent with the romanization of the rest of the language.

 

[conjur]

I think Chick might fall a lawsuit against them!