북한의 어음연구 = North Korean Dialect Research

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of dialect research in North Korea changed drastically around the mid-1960s. Up until that time, such research was generally carried out following Marx-Leninist linguistic principles, in order to discover the history and development of the Korean language and the linguistic laws that affected this development, to standardize the language, and to do geographical linguistic research through the systematic research of individual dialects. Starting in the late 1960s, however, dialect research broke with previous trends and began to be performed for the purpose of developing and promulgating the "Cultured Language" and of improving society's use of language in general.
Among actual dialect research, the percentage taken up by systematic research of individual dialects is extremely small, the majority being phonological in nature. The phonological research tends to concentrate on historical change occuring within morphemes, and phonetic matters, while contemporary alternation appearing on morpheme boundary is hardly discussed at all. Thus historical phenomena are the main concern in all fields of dialect research. One notable aspect of North Korean dialect research is the fact that there are several works that compare and contrast dialects of the entire country.
There are seven major differences between dialect research in North and South Korea:
1) The distinction between historical and contemporary phenomena.
2) Research on phonological phenomena of morpheme boundary.
3) Investigation of the syntactic function of morphemes.
4) Systematic research into individual dialects.
5) Comparative/contrastive research into dialects of the entire country.
6) Geographical linguistic research into dialects of large or national scope.
7) Dialect boundaries.
Of these, South Korean research is weak in areas 5-7, and North Korean research generally in area 1-4, 6 and 7. In order to reconcile the differences between North and South dialect research, each will have to supplement and correct those areas in which it is weak.