Korean Dialects, Explained: Why Busan Sounds So Different from Seoul (and What the Other 6 Regions Sound Like)
There's the Korean you learn from textbooks — and then there's the Korean you actually hear in Busan, Gwangju, Daejeon, Jeju, and the North. Eight regional dialects, the K-dramas that use each one, and one critically endangered language UNESCO says will be gone in 50 years.
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