What are the differences in speaking between North and South Korea? | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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- North Koreans are secretly watching and listening to so many South Korean movies and songs smuggled into the country that they are becoming increasingly worried that they might let a banned word slip - and face prison time or even death for using “capitalist” lingo, sources in the country tell Radio Free Asia.
“Residents who are already accustomed to the South Korean way of speaking now feel like they have to practice the Pyongyang dialect,” said a resident in the northwestern province of North Pyongan, referring to the capital.
“They are worried that South Korean words will unintentionally or unknowingly come out of their mouths and that they will be punished,” he said. For example, North Korean women dare not call their husbands or boyfriends “jagiya” (which correlates to honey) or “oppa” (another term of endearment that literally means older brother). Instead, they must stick with “dongji,” (comrade), the source said.
People are also having to avoid using South Korean loan words from English such as “paesyeon” (fashion), “heeoseutail” (hairstyle) and “waipeu” (wife). “Even openly saying ‘I love you’ is evidence that they have seen South Korean movies and such language has become normalized,” the source said.
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I love how North Korean use standard and traditional vocabulary instead of using pretty much amount of loan words, which is kinda poetic
They sometimes use loan words from Russia and China (Hanja)
actually north koreans use a lot of loan words from japanese and russian.
Most of the North Korean dialect is pure Korean.
@@スロ Most of the North Korean dialect is made up of pure Korean words. The DPRK made a bunch of social and cultural reforms to purify everything, which included getting rid of the jaegaseung (an ethnic group native to North Hamgyeong Province descended from Tungusic peoples), and getting rid of as many Sino-Korean vocabularies and foreign loanwords as possible. The North Korean dialect is made up of close to 30-35 percent non-Korean words (including Sino-Korean and foreign loanwords), while the South Korean dialect is made up of close to 56-60 percent.
What is her name? The woman on the right.
North Korea is slightly more "pure" Korean but also more Russian and Chinese loan words for certain things.
The second part of that sentence is making more and more sense every day 😬
Russian?
Not a single Russian loan word (in this video at least)
@@alexbork4250 True. I think the Russian loan words are more for the technical stuff
@@alexbork4250 For example:
North Korea --- South Korea
메드레 --- 버킷 (Bucket Ведро)
비지깨 --- 매치 (Matches Спички)
가르망 --- 포켓 (Pocket Карман)
사바귀 --- 부츠 (Boots Сапоги)
We can understand each other while talking, but South Korean can easily catch the north Korean because of the words we don't use it at all and the accent.
it's interesting, because you sound the same
@@randompers873 I've heard that a good rule of thumb in North Korean pronunciation is that their d's sound like t's and their g's sound like k's. As well as other harder sounds.
Is it truly illegal to speak with a North Korean accent in South Korea? I heard you can get in trouble if you do that. I assume that it's only really permissible in TV dramas.
@@creative-name5279 it's not illegal to speak North Korean accent in Korea. But nobody speaks North Korean accent as a south Korean because the accent is very strange here. K- drama is a fiction. 🤣
@creative-name5279 it's more of othe way around. If you speak with south korean accent as north korean in north. You will probably go to jail
Now I see why North Korean defector find it hard to live in South Korea
I remember one of them said she only understood about 60% of what people in the South said when she first defected.
I think the names of everything that came after 1950 are different but the grammar and stuff are the same. It's more like British English vs American English.
Here is only some expression known to be different. If a north and a south korean spreak without using english based vocabulary they won't have any difficulty to communicate. Btw the accent is a bit different too
And pretty harsh discriminations against former North Koreans I hear. The defectors from North are easy to spot due to the dialects and they are not trusted so it is very difficult for them to find a place to live and work. With that said, there are many South Koreans who support them in many aspects of the issue.
@@undefined1032 No, the names are mostly the same back then as they are today. While there are some names that are more common in North Korea or South Korea, most names are still very common on both sides.
Its like how Brazilian Portuguese/Traditional Portuguese are spoken. Pretty interesting. They have a similar language with different dialects and phrases.
they can still mutually understand each other perfectly
@@fwyakkonot perfectly. many north koreans struggle to understand english loan words in south korea. and the accent is quite different to understand
@@スロ Oh please. The North Korean dialects are as different to the South Korean dialects as British English is to American English. They're still the same language and we can easily understand each other.
@@in00n I know they are the same language. But North Korean defectors actually have a hard time getting used to the South Korean dialect. When they first encounter South Korean media, they often find it difficult to understand and say it feels like listening to a foreign language.
@@fwyakkoso can Portuguese and Brazilian people
In resume, North Korea still relies on its own language for every word, unlike South Korea they have added more English words. Some words even in the same language are different but that's normal everywhere among regions in the same country or language spoken.
they avoid Korean words that are Sino-Korean (koreanized words from Chinese origin). Also they do not use Hanja (Chinese characters) at all. Not in scientific or news papers.
It's kind of funny that English is doing to other languages what the Romance languages did to English
@@ShellyTheSeal That tends to happen to countries that were under US influence like south Korea was during the post war. The same case with the Philippines to the point that the other version of Tagalog is called Taglish and new generation keeps adding more and more words, not so good at all cuz it destroy little by little the essence of a language.
@@ShellyTheSealnah English isn't doing anything you! Nobody told or made you guys adopt a damn thing! Take it up with your congress and academia. Find out why the English language is a part of your academia and why you CHOSE to be a part of western culture and adopt the language
@@theglobetrottersvthe war was way back when! So what's the excuse for korea (along with the rest of the world) to be watching following and copying rhe U.S
The North Korean be looking more like southern than her counterparts 💀
that confused me 2
I thought the north is the south and the south is the north
Well she's lived in the south for a very long time
One of the very few that are properly fed
Yea because of the obvious plastic surgery i would’ve thought she was South Korean
Feels like the North Korean lady had training in being a presenter. After each phrase she nods her head to acknowledge the audience or shifts her body to face the other lady if it's part of a conversation. Captivating performance on camera.
S. Korean: mobile phone
N. Korean: ?
S. Korean: ramyon (ramen)
N. Korean: ???
S. Korean: mobile phone
N. Korean: 손전화
S. Korean: ramyon (ramen)
N. Korean: 꼬부랑국수
N. korean: Free housing
S. Korean: ?
N. Korean: Wealth equality
S. Korean: ?
N. Korean: Workers Rights
S. Korean: ?
@@gabe5225 you got to be joking xD
commie defender, you do not know what it is like in North Korea. "Workers Rights" LMAO
@@gabe5225 LMAOOO nah you have to be trolling
@@koulematon7359 north korea is literally one of the few socialist countries that still exists. ofc they have socialist policies and principles, like free housing and wealth equality and free mandated education
It'd make more sense for a nation that rejects everything and strictly keeps it's traditions to sound more Korean than one that embraces outside mostly western influence
Can the non-korean stop making assumptions which one is older or Which one has much pure Language? Both of them have loans word but only from different influence. These poeple not from both countries like to assume stuff is annoying.
North Korean language and North Korean girl are both superior to their counterparts.
So is the North Korea Korean the original Korean?
Yes
the language they use is pure korean. I wouldn't call it "original" since the terms introduced here were mostly english. They usually don't try to use the foreign term as it is
Yes
There is no original Korean still in use because everyone has formed modern dialects. Do you think that North Korea would still be speaking the original Korean 100 years from now if both countries still existed? No, they would continue to diverge in their dialects. If it gets extreme over long periods of time, they become their own languages. In that case, it would be strange and misleading for them to say "the language spoken down south was an offspring of ours, actually!" if both languages were isolated for the entire time. The best way to think of this is both modern forms being siblings.
Yes indeed !
0:07 I haven’t seen this word, only 아이스크림 (same as the south) or 에스키모
Interesting!!
So north korea is the real korea
They're the first Korean country to exist (idk how to say it but they're older than south korea
@@jaymarklaude2995south korea established on 15 august 1948 while north korea established on 9 september 1948. how can you said north korea is older than south korea?😂 do research before you talk.
@@antoniussamuelson3748 i meant by origin, Gojoseon
@@jaymarklaude2995They're both descended from Gojoseon
The only thing I like about the DPRK is their defence of traditional Korean culture
Not a fan of the loan words: they have 2 versions for the word, "grape" (English version and Korean version). Not sure why.
Yeah, every morning, I'm not sure whether to go to the cafe or the coffee shop.
Because they've been influenced by english... the same phenomenon is rampant in english with germanic/latin doubles
@@xavierpaquin I'm unique to Korean. English is my first language, but I'm Korean. I learned it badly as an adult, so I see it from an outsiders point of view.
You and the other commenter don't get it though. Any English word can be transposed into Korean. Koreans that grow up in the States will intermix the two. But, there is no rhyme or reason why certain words have 2 generally accepted versions.
The bigger issue is language is culture. Korean is way more of a unique language than English which is already a mix and match. Replacing the Korean version of words with English just rubs me the wrong way.
With that said, Korea should have adopted English as a 2nd official language decades ago, lol. Koreans are terrible at speaking English.
@@HKim0072 It's stupid to say that. English, like many other languages, are all influenced by Latin and to an extent, Greek. Why would Korean be the only language in the world to not be influenced by other language? What an ancient way of thinking.
@@mmendozagomez Let me guess. You are like 25?
Damn I would've flipped it around and would think the more dolled up one is from the rich South
She probably did plastic surgery and wears a lot of makeup and skincare products out of necessity to fit in into the beauty obsessed society of South Korea.
Over there so many women look exactly like her, almost doll-like
@@julbombning4204 again that's why I thought it was flipped cuz the Southern one doesn't seem to have any.
@@jebril Yeah interesting case, maybe the South Korean girl is an exception and the northern does it out of survival because of South Korean prejudice against defectors from North Korea getting treated differently
the girl from North Korea on joe Rogan also looked like that
@julbombning4204 thats rude and you have stereotypes in korea. most people in sk looks like left and plastic surgery is special case to normal people
Wow They are different much more than I thought. Even in basic sentences. I wonder if North Korean people and South Korean people understand each other if they are talking in their own dialects
I first thought the left one is north korean.
Same, i associate ugly with the “bad guys” or evil side, but turns out, the beautiful one is from the north
@@shadowdraqon2479 hottest chics are always from the commie countries
wtf is wrong with these two
@@shadowdraqon2479the one on the left is not ugly but ig that’s subjective, the only difference i can really make out is that one has less makeup on than the other including darker skin
On the flip side, North Korea cares way more about its image, and would likely send a more “beautiful” woman to these kinds of videos to improve their image. South Korea on the other hand doesn’t care
Fwiw i find both of these women equally beautiful, the right just has a lot of makeup and more revealing clothing
"Miso" is used also in the north.
Damn and here I thought they weren't getting enough to eat in north korea
She has defected and been living in the South for a while.
they literally are
Right? Are they real?
@@BUTTERVISION i thought it was obvious she is a defector. cause you can’t seriously be thinking this is filmed in north korea right?
@@visi5612 i was talking about las tiddiezzzzz
0:08 So ice cream is pronounced "ice cream", but spelled as "lotion" in South Korean......interesting
there's no "pure" korean...it's just seoul dialect and pyeongyang dialect....korean accents are all different by their areas
Oh like Kansai and Tokyo dialects in Japan
@@Sheenifier yes and just like the western and eastern dialects of the United States are different too..
but like one has more "borrowed words"... but i guess that doesn't matter anyways since most of Koreans vocabulary is from Cantonese/Chinese in general.
Ikr, hate to see people assuming which one is purer
The North girl has ROUND vocabs ❤
It's hard to find content about the linguistical differences between now and south that isn't strictly through a geopolitical lens.
60년대 까지는 서울말의 거짓말은 평양말(육이오 때북한에서 내려온 난민들의 말)로 가짓말 혹은 거짓뿌렁이라고 했지요.
i want to learn korean now.
The girl on right side is pretty ❤
They both are
@@opalyasu7159 yeah i was going to say they're both attractive haha
Right one did plastic surgery 😂
such a rude comment in reality. idk if you meant it that way, but maybe think before you type
@@peacefulcreativity444 are you telling me?
Attempting to translate some of these:
Lotion: Lotion (English)- Skin ? ?
Juice: Juice (English) - Sweet water
Ice cream: Ice cream (English) - Ice ??
Dimples: ?? - ?? Skin
Smile: Smile - Smile of the cheeks
Wig: ??? - ? Hair
Housewife - Didn’t understand any 😅
Rock Paper Scissors: Scissors Paper Rock - ???
Phone: Hand (english) phone - Hand call
Do you like ramen?: Do you like ramyun? - Do you like wavy noodles?
I found some of the portions of the North-Korean words easier to understand sometimes 😭
lotion: 살결 (skin texture) 물 (water)
dimples: 오목 (concave) 살 (skin)
wig:
south - 가발 (假 fake 髮 hair)
north - 덧 (더 + 사이시옷 = more/additional) 머리 (hair)
housewife:
south - 가정 (household) 주부 (housewife)
north - 가두 (街頭 = street/neighborhood) 녀성 (女性 = female)
rock paper scissors:
south - 가위 (scissors) 바위 (stone) 보 (褓 = baby carrying blanket)
north - 가위 (scissors) 주먹 (fist)
anyone knows if the girl on the ride side has insta? im doing research for school work.
sure simp
one uses english loan words other doesn’t wow ok cool
One of them is so natural, the other in dominated by western vocabulary
@@elwillypeinadoone could argue that it’s unnatural to forcibly prevent certain cultures to influence your language, not very cut-and-dry
@@elwillypeinadoOnly isolated languages without any contact to the outside world are uninfluenced by lingua francas and other contact languages. Also, North Korean has a variety of Chinese, Russian, and Japanese loanwords.
@@bbunky that is why I use to call English as the betrayer of germanic languages, and French as the betrayer of romanic languages. Because of their influences from the other language's sub-family
The North Korean dialect actually has a lot of Russian loanwords, which makes sense given Soviet influence.
I think I know why he keeps the women locked up in the country now
Yea
Plastic surgery is easily fooling you
picked up a few words, very similar to turkish and kazakh
Yes I have also noticed. They begin the word "housewife" with "gadoon", and the NK lady read it like "KA-DIHN", which is exactly how we say women in Turkish. Mindblowing. I am curious what other Kazakh example you noticed, since Kazakh is closer to archaic Turkic languages than Istanbul Turkish, which was under heavy Arabic and Persian influence at this point
Are the subtitles wrong? It doesn't sound like she's saying 일없슴까? or 꼬부랑국수 좋아 함까? It mostly just sounds like she's saying 일 없으니까? or 꼬무랑국수 좋아 합니까? which is just standard Korean grammar.
who would win in a fight?
Pyongyang coming in hot with the heavy artillery
Aww I love their voice
one of the most difficult languages on earth... and it has such differences in a small peninsula
English has more differences in uk than america.
Man it's like those guys have a whole other language
Actually they are two very different countries now !
I didnt know that south korean and english were so similar speaking wise
I don't see enough people talking about how both of them are really pretty, it's not just the one wearing makeup..
Yeah it's so annoying how they are comparing the two...
Only the one with makeup is hot
@@shubee3938 no both look pretty
It's not just make up... there's plenty of surgery there too
@@osasunaitor u think
JAV code please?
Lmao
I think it's ID-10T.
I see huge difference.
Huge difference, yes.
Ah! I see you're a man of culture.
덧머리이날았다
A hundred years ago, were not the two countries of North and South Korea both the same country?? So why all the differences?
the north korean government force the people to use specific government-accepted vocabulary, and in particular ban the use of english words, and chinese writing -- not chinese loanwords, just the writing, that would be like banning french loanwords in english -- so instead they will make up new words using pure korean, or sometimes borrow words from russian or chinese, rather than borrowing words from english, but they do also prefer pure korean words over chinese or russian, they are also required to speak substantially more formally than they usually do in south korea, so it can sound much more old-fashioned, whereas the south has developed more naturally, and tend to take more loanwords, and from chinese and english rather than chinese and russian
Seperti dia nara deh,saya pernah melihat nya di tv Indonesia
Somehow north Korean defectors to the south are always smokin hot
Crazy how proper nutrition works
@@koalabear1984One would think that the opposite of OP's observation is the case then, no?
Theyre paid by SK to make NK look bad
@@ergot1803 Seeing as world obesity is currently a bigger problem than world hunger, not really..
Keep in mind, most defectors come from families that are rather well-off.
radio free asia is a cia funded organization and at one point was completely staffed by former cia agents
This girl also isnt from nk. She sounds like sk
She adapted to South Korea, which most defectors do.
I like the Pyongshmong girl more..
So North Korean preserve the language more
I can see a lot more diffrence than that only speaking.
I know the left girl is S Korea when she say Gojimal, it's Lie from T-ara and Big bang 😅
Hmm... the north korean seem to have had plastic surgery, while southern one look more natural.
Was about to say the same thing 🤣🤣🤣
As a voice intercept specialist, I noticed that the speed at which these two group speak is the reverse of the US. South Koreas appear to speak faster than North Koreans.
덧글에서 영어 영향 안받은 북한이 순수 한국어고 어쩌고 하는데 북한도 외래어 많이 가져와서 쓰는데다 김씨일가 사상 담아서 만들어낸 단어들도 수두룩합니다. 정상사회로 굴러갔으면 한국이랑 완전 같진않아도 현재의 북한에서 쓰는 것과는 다른 방향으로 언어가 발달했을거고. 외국인 입장에서 걍 옛느낌 나니까 오~하고 미국 깔 명분도 돼서 나오는 짧은 식견들같음
Wow, North Korean girl has some major updates
Maybe they’re just built different up there?
@@mutestingrayno she said obviously has work done in south korea cause its common.
@@eo0-g9j nah this is what NK women are like naturally
why do japanese and s.koreas just use literal english pronunciation for their korean words
Why does English use many 'Latin pronunciation' for their English words? English is 80% loanwords. I guess it's done for. Do you know their roots?? Here's a list:
It's stupid to think languages won't at one point be influenced by others. Korean and Japanese are not the only ones.
Ad hoc: Meaning "for this purpose" or "improvised."
Ad infinitum: Meaning "to infinity" or "endlessly."
Ad nauseam: Meaning "to the point of nausea" or "repeated excessively."
Alibi: Meaning "elsewhere" or "at another place."
Alma mater: Meaning "nourishing mother" and typically refers to one's college or university.
Et cetera (etc.): Meaning "and the rest" or "and so on."
Exemplar: Meaning "a model or pattern."
Per capita: Meaning "per person" or "by head."
The north korean dialect is so beautiful and pure.
That is not Pyeongyang dialect.
Crazy to see the difference that 70 years of division can make
This is actually sad tbh
We helped the wrong Korea
I'm from South Korea and I can confirm this
We need to free the north fr
booba...
tl;dr: South Korea has adopted A LOT of English words.
i love pyongyang ❤ the western had fed me the wrong image
😂😂
Hey I’d like to learn North Korean
Well the North Korean female is surely more nourished.
North korean is more pure korean whereas south korean is more diluted. I prefer NK language but SK government
Not at all, Seoul called Hansung or Hanyang in the past was a capital city of Chosun Dynasty around 500 years and Northern lands were provincial areas at that time as well.
not really north korean has a lot of loan words from countries like china and russia. Both langauges uses loan words (just like ever language)
@@idkimjustdarkfudgelol6896 not nearly as much as SK does. And NK Chinese loan words are typically the same as SK. It's one thing to have loan words from languages close by.... Do I have to remind you that the UK and US are not near the Korean peninsula it's a gross interjection of loan words that don't fit the location or language of Korean
@@jwc5004 why are you literally bringing up irrelevant history? SK has European loan words because it's been infected by western imperialism. Most NK loan words are no different than how they got previous ones. China and Korea have always been doing language exchange
@@alexandrahenderson4368 i get your points but I'm just saying you can't call it "pure Korean" since it's not only words that came from Korean. Also North Korea got LOTS of loan words from Japan which the way they got can be called even more horrible words then "gross interjection" it was downright demonic. So SK and NK both are not pure Korean languages (there's no such things) they both have loan words and debatable got them in grotesque ways.
I will also like to say I know SK also got loan words from Japan in a grotesque way, I just wanna to mention north korea because it pertain to my point more.
North Korean sounds more pure. Not in vocabulary but in phonology too. South Korean sounds very Japanese on the contrast with north
What would happen if somebody went back in time to 1953 and tried to talk to another American ? It wouldn’t even be this hard I assume ?
There is no ice cream in North Korea
North Koreans suffered less from linguistic imperialism ❤
Why is the North Korean girls on CZcams so beautiful?
And big
@@Kane_2001yeah i want one.
coz north korea is better
Plastic surgery
For some reason the North girl just makes me feel like I haven't been allowed to eat enough for today.
NK: traditional Korean
SK: simplified Korean
THIS IS LIKE EAST JAVA AND CENTRAL JAVA INDONESIA.. THE DIFFERENT IS KOREA IS SEPARATE AND INDONESIA IS UNITED 😂
thats really not reason to laugh, don't you have any empathy ?
Kata "indonesia" Tidak diartikan sebagai etnis yang Anda samakan dengan "jawa", sementara " Korea" Adalah nama yang didapat dari nama etnis. Nama persatuan rumpun etnis di kepulauan Melayu ini adalah "Malayo" Atau "Malaya" Di Indonesia, malaysia, brunei dan singapura
Karena kita adalah proto-deutro Malaya. Bagian dari Austronesia
ketahuan nih Bolos belajar IPS Geografi
noth sounds cooler
でかい ...
OPPAI....
The Pyongyang dialect sounds nice, closer to Chinese language but a lot less speak it.
It doesn't sound Chinese at all.
@@jiminswriter4209 it actually has many more Chinese loan words than its neighbour, I’m study languages and it was immediately noticeable.
North Koreans speak authentic Korean, apparently.
North speaks straithness
South speaks thickness
.....what
north korean’s girl is so pretty
when the news that nk is lack of children?? shes enough,baby is counting rise to her,lets do homework then😂
Full stomachs.
What a BIG difference between the 2, if u know what i mean
SK:Konglish
NK:Korean
@@oncetwice4ever He meant that he is a man of culture.
Perhaps it is because the difference in their sizes? Need answers from men of culture.
복한사람도 (괜찮아요?)쓰는느낌이 들은데...
South Korean girl or North Korean girl?
South uses loans
North uses native and traditional from east asian culture
North ( . Y . ) South . .
Pig
True Korea is using the original Korean.
Ice cream (lotion)?
They have cosmetics in NK??
Meanwhile English speaking countries:
"Hahaha he said a bo'o'wotah"
북한여자 존예;;
the difference: there is no free speach in north korea.
I look at the North Korean and she looks plump. I mean well fed
People dont wanna hear it but it Sounds so japanese
Korean sounds a lot like japanese so yea
looking at n korean woman, i can see the big difference, real big
yeah,Kim has good choice 😂😂😂
@@erenjaeger-qy3yq he better be opening the country real quick 🤣