Dong-zhe Li. 2012 . Current Situation of the Language Use of Korean Chinese and its Future Perspective: With a Focus on Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture . Language Information. Volume 14. 137-150.
China is a multinational country including Han and other 55 ethnic minority groups. Korean Chinese, with its total population of about 2 million, is one of the minority groups living in China. Among the 2 million of Korean, most of the them live in the North-eastern arean, about 36.6% live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Most of the Korean Chinese use Korean language in their daily lives. This paper, with signs, language education, and people’s daily use of language as objectives, investigates how the Korean language is used under the great influence of the Chinese Language. (Japanology Research Institute, Yanbian University)
Key words: ethnic Korean, Korean language, language use, future perspective