The Japanese colonisation of Korea between 1910 and 1945 produced, paradoxically, a substantial revival of Hangul as a symbol of Korean national identity in resistance to Japanese cultural assimilation policies — with the linguist Ju Si-gyeong coining the modern name “Hangul” (meaning, approximately, “great script”) around 1910, and the Korean Language Society organizing substantial popular scholarship on the script throughout the colonial period despite the imprisonment of its members.
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