Korea's Naming Problem 

lol I just realized South Koreans call North Korea 'North-Han' when North Koreans call South Korea 'South-Chosun'

this is like a pretty powerpoint presentation i love it

i think the north's leader's private plane should be referred to as "Choseon one"

The words at 2:54 are actually the lyrics to the Gangnam Style pre-chorus

......why did I come here thinking it was about a "naming the PEOPLE" problem

2:54 that's the lyrics for Gangnam Style lol

im korean, and when we say hanguk, it usually just means south korea. We rarely use it to refer to the whole korean peninsula. For that, we'd use hanbando, which means korean peninsula, or nambukhan, which means south and north koreas.

Korea's naming problem in a nutshell: korea: hey can you guys please call us chos- japan: *no.*

It's worth mentioning that north koreans call south korea "south joseon" while south koreans call north korea "north han" (han from hangook= korea in south korea)

If this was uploaded 5 months ago, why are all the comments from an hour ago

Hi im korean and just minor error in this video. Choseon dynasty didnt continue till 1945. In early 1900s or 1910s(i cant remember) it changed its name to Daehan dynasty. And still now korea’s official name in korean is “daehan”minkuk

The video: 6 months ago The comments: *Seconds to hours ago*

Funfact: Egypt is not called egypt by egyptains, nor by other arabs. Its called Masr/Misr

English: North Korea / South Korea South Korean: Bukhan / Hanguk North Korean: Joson / Namjoson Chinese: Chaoxian / Hanguo Japanese: Kitachosen / Kankoku Vietnamese: (Bac) Trieu Tien / Han Quoc

I mean, most western countries don't say "Qing", but they call it "China" after the Qin Dynasty- Which is even more out dated than Korea. "Zhongguo", by the way, is what China actually calls itself.

i didnt search for this -

I thought this would've been a video about how everyone has the same surnames lol

"Deutschland" French: "Allemagne" English: "Germany"

Oooo also, It is worth mentioning that south korea calls north korea "bukhan" and north korea calls south korea "namjoseon", "buk" and "nam" meaning "north" and "south"", respectively.

Only now that I finally get why these 2 are called differently in Vietnamese Triều Tiên - Choseon Hàn Quốc - Hanguk

Idk why this was in my recommended, but I'm really glad it was.

2:55 Lyric of Gangnamstyle 2:56 Translation: Dude, your hat is freaking awesome.

i thought this video meant why koreans have too much similar names. especially their last names, it’s so common than i thought

In Mandarin we also call the North "Chaoxian" and the south "Hanguo". We just read the Hanja in Chinese

Every Korean would know the pain of having to look for multiple names whenever a website requires the country you live in... It's either South Korea, Korea(South), or Republic of Korea

Wait. So Japan called it Koryo when it was Chosun, and then Japan called it Chosun when it was Han Empire. What the heck is this?

This was made 6 months ago and I see comments from 1 and 2 hours ago

When you're (South) Korean and you have to select your country while ordering from overseas: Where's South Korea.. Let's go to S's. No South Korea. Okay. just keep scrolling. Republic of Korea.. Let's go back to the R's. Nope, no Republic of Korea. Keep scrolling... Just Korea then- let's go back to the K's. No Korea. No 'Korea, Republic of' either. No 'Korea, South' either. Then where the hell is it??? I've tried all the variations for south korea??? The site: _Daehan Minguk_ Me: *for fucks sake*

Yup. Idk why I'm watching this video (I'm certainly Korean so I know these stuff) well but it's useful. Fun fact is we always have to search the country choosing selection carefully because it's like South Korea... Republic of Korea... or just Korea. man it's confusing all the time

They get fine by the C spelling because pronunciation is actually consistent lol.

My pet theory is that “Corea” was phased out becaure English speakers kept pronouncing it as if it were related to “core”, like “Legend of Core-a”.

어째서 이 3년 전 영상에 몇시간 전의 한국인들이 몰려오는거지...? 이게 알고리즘의 신비인가

Next video: America's naming problem And the problem is that when I said "America" ​​you thought of a country and not the continent

A complete list of the 15 countries that call themselves something completely different than their English name: - Albania - Armenia - Bhutan - China - Egypt - Finland - Georgia - Germany - Greece - Greenland - Hungary - India - Morocco - North Korea - South Korea

if anyones wondering, brown hat guy at 2:56 is saying "bitch, that hat is fucking cool"

Well, it is such a nice country to live in. We can blame the government, drink tap water, and we have the fastest internet, which is good for watching Netflix and RU-vid, you know.

3:53 But China is a reference to the Qin dynasty which outdates the Qing Dynasty by over 1400 years (China orignated from Sanskirt Cīna (चीन) which then the Persian called Cin (چین) which then Marco Polo popularised in Europe, both words refer to the Qin dynasty, used as the name for 'China' from 150AD.)

@2:55 lyrics of Gangnam Style @2:56 which translates into "Dude, yo hat looks sick!"

Those other languages spell it Corea because the letter K is uncommon in them...

This was posted years ago. Why’s it coming into everyone’s suggested now?

Reading Korea so much in this video made the word not look real anymore, idk guys Korea doesn't seem real to me

2:54 Lyrics to Gangnam Style 2:55 "bitch lol that hat's fucking cool"

3:51 - well, it’s better than that. We call it China because of the Qin dynasty 2000 years ago. But for them it’s Zhongguo.

Japan was like "oh so your name is Corey? I'm gonna call you Bob"

Why do so many countries call japan “japan” when japanese call is “nihon”? And germany??? What’s going on there? Everyone has a different name for germany...!??

Why is this on my recommendation list....I'm korean and I already know all this.

Did any other Koreans here learn that Korea was changed from Corea because Japan didn't want Korea to appear first in the dictionary?

Korean here dude and I approve. you did some quality research man

I wonder why the Japanese word for Korea is 韓国 (“Kankoku”) now

i learnt more from this video than in my entire AP World class like-

I thought the naming problem was going to be about how Korea only seems to have 3 surnames.

I’ve learned more about Korea in this 5 minute video then I have in the past 3 years going to Korean classes

Fun Fact, South Koreans also call England, USA, and Australia totally different names from their original English names. England = 영국 (yeong.guk) heroic country USA = 미국 (mi.guk) beautiful country Australia = 호주 (ho.ju) moat continent

In vietnamese we refer to each side as how they refer to themselves, the south being “Hàn Quốc” (Han country) and the north being “Triều Tiên” which is a translation of “아사달” meaning beautiful morning. Just a perspective from a fellow asian country Edit: “Korea” translated into Vietnamese is “Hàn Quốc”.

This has more to do with the English language than Korea/Corea/Hanguk/Choseon/Koryeo/Corai/Coray

Oh so *thats* why North Korea in Chinese is Chaoxian and South Korea is Hanguo

The name 'K'orea is not just used in English, it is also used in many other countries with Germanic, Nordic and Slavic languages. 'C'orea or similar names with 'C' are mostly used in the countries with Romantic languages. It depends on the phonetic features and preferred way of writing in each language. It's not like people who speak English suddenly changed the spelling without any reason.

In Turkish we call China just "Çin" which is pronounced exactly like "Qing" as in Qing Empire.

thank you for explaining . As a korean I always feel sad whenever some people asked me are you came from north korea or south korea. I feel like people doesn’t know north korean people can’t travel around the world. Well some of people can be from north korean but not mostly people aren’t from north koreans.

4:47 with very few exceptions, c is only s when before e, i or y, otherwise it's always k, so this isn't likely

3:54 funnily enough, one (not sole) explanation of the origin of the term "China" is that it was derived from the Qin Empire (way further back than Qing), so yea the West loves referring countries to their old names haha.

Wow, I'm Korean, but I learned my country's history through this video! Thank u!

Also the part where we call South Korea just "Korea" because of the context that we know we're not talking about the northern one.

2:54 are the lyrics of gangnam style And 2:56 means something like "Bi*ch, your hat is freaking awesome" xD

One of my Korean friend told me that it went from Corea to Korea because of Japan. Because "c" comes before "j" in the alphabet, Japan thought that it would mean japan was second. So they changed it to Korea so that it came after japan. I don't know if this is true but it's not the first time I've heard it. There's even a Korean clothes brand based on this is think

Here in the Netherlands, us Netherlanders also get called lots of other names, like Dutch and Holland and such.

Fun fact President Truman pronounced it "Core-ay-uh"

They're like siblings that want to get along but are too petty about it 😂

RU-vid: _uploads any video about Korea_ Korean: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

A lot of countries have different names in their own languages than the names they go by in English. Take Germany for example. In German, it's known as Deutschland.

3:53 actually, Qing Dynasty existed around the late Joseon Dynasty. Calling Korea 'Korea' is more like Calling China 'Song'. AND ONE MORE FUN FACT Where does 'China' came from? It came from the name of the dynasty that existed until 206 BCE ( the most influential theory ) :)))

2:54 lol thats really gangnam style 😂😂

You're video is entertaining but I can tell you that most of my Korean friends believe the name was changed from Corea to Korea due to the 1908 Olympics. The country was still occupied and a japanese official complained that the Corean team were entering the stadium before them and thus demanded their name changed to Korea so the Japanese team would enter first. How true this is Im not sure.

4:03 Japan indeed didn't have a national flag by our modern usage, but it did have a flag of its own that was used as a symbol of the shogun and acted mainly as the naval ensign of Japan (like most other flags at the time), that flag is the flag of the Togukuwa shoganate:- upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Flag_of_the_Tokugawa_Shogunate.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Tokugawa_Shogunate.svg.png 4:08 Korea didn't only have a flag, but multiple of them, there were three royal standards during the rule of the Joseon dynasty before 1882 and a little bit into 1907, here are the three:- upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_the_king_of_Joseon.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_king_of_Joseon.svg.png This one lasted from 1882 to 1907 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_flags#/media/File%3AFlag_of_the_King_of_Joseon_(1876).png This one from 1856 to 1876 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_flags#/media/File%3AFlag_of_Korea_(1856).png We don't exactly know when it's usage started, but we can deduce that it lasted until 1856

The comments are so recent. Everyone must be got this on their recommendation.

3:54 I mean technically in the turkish language china is still called „chin“ (I wrote it how it is pronounced)

I am in love with the fact that you read each non-English word without an English accent. That is so satisfying! And impressive! bc no one does that 🙄👏🏻

3:53 the word china most likely originated from qin kingdom/dynasty which existed from 9th to 3rd century BC

Well the name "Korea" came to be because the Koryo dynasty engaged in extensive trading with middle eastern countries via the silk road.

In German, France is still called the Frankish Empire or "Frankreich"

3:51 it's always been like that, in fact, it's worse. China has always called themselves "zhong guo" or "the middle kingdom" but westerners keep calling them china, referring to the 1st chinese dynasty from thousands of years ago, the qin dynasty.

“Like if you call China the ‘Qing Dynasty’” Funny how you put it. I mean, this is exactly what we’re doing? China was derived from the Persian spelling of Qing.

Lets make it known that the USA did not singlehandedly save us from Japanese rule. To say that would undermine the countless Korean people who fought for and died in order to fight for our independence. Just like Columbus didnt discover America, the USA alone did not free us from Japanese colonialism. Tons of Koreans organized and gave their lives for their country and to form the modern Korea, of course including significant contribution from the USA.

In this video, there are some cases of confusion in spellings of country names. The official Korean language romanization (transliteration) system was changed in South Korea in 2000, introducing "Revised Romanization of Korean", replacing the old McCune-Reischauer system. (North Korea is still using the old system, though usually without original diacritical mark.) According to the new system, spellings of some proper nouns are changed this way. 고려: Koryŏ -> Goryeo 조선: Chosŏn -> Joseon 조선글: Chosŏngŭl -> Joseongeul (Hangeul in South Korea) 신라: Shilla -> Silla 변한: Pyŏnhan -> Byeonhan 진한: Chinhan -> Jinhan

omigod korea is not a word anymore in my brain its just letters

Korea: I have two names both have nothing to do with Korea Deutschland: "Old my beer" Germany, Alemannia, Neimcy, Tyksland, Teutonia, pyskaland, tedesco, jeureuman, yi la man, saksa, pruses, vacija, vokietija, frangikos, suorvegr,

Cant we stick with that naming convention??? (No I'm tooootaly not saying this cause I want Greece to be called Byzantium or Rome again)

as a native, I'll add some additional explain. koreans actually pronounce differntly with the video because the old korean romanization rules are replaced in 2000. 0:44 Pyeonhan --> Byeonhan , Chinhan --> Jinhan , and Mahan is same 2:05 Koryeo -> Goryeo , Choseon -> Joseon.

Funny thing is that in South korea, we use different names. Like 대한민국, 한국, 남한 this all means S.Corea

Germany and Korea have some similarities Both got seperated into two halves by the USA and Soviet Union Deutschland gets called Germany, Alemania or Niemcy and Hanguk/Choson gets called Korea

I learned the name "Korea" derives from Islamic merchants arabic tongue of Koryeo, "Cooree" which in French also "Coree" similar pronunciation and somehow ended up Korea in English.

Teacher: *takes days to finish a history lesson* Me watching 5 minute videos on RU-vid and understanding more: 👁 👄 👁

Korea doesn't sound like a word anymore

We finnish people call Estonia 'Viro' because we have been in touch with the Northern part, viru, for centuries. Sweden is 'Ruotsi' because the first Swedish settlers to Finland hundreds of years ago came from roslagen, a part of Sweden. Again Germany is 'Saksa' because we were in contact with saxons. Also when Finland became a country European nations did not start calling it 'Suomi' even though that is what we chose. History 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is common in any different cultures. Japan is not Nihon and China is not Zhong-guo in English. Likewise, America is Mi-guk in Korean and Mei-guo in Chinese. I don't think any of it is a problem :D

한국사와 영어공부를 동시에 하는 법

The word that's translated as "Republic" in Democratic People's Republic of Korea is konghwaguk, which literally means something like "together-harmony-country" and doesn't mention people. Both "Democracy" (minjujuŭi = people's-rule-ruling-rule) and "People's" (inmin = person-people) do include "min" = people (in the sense of nation; not the plural of "person")

Judging from very few on these comments, I guess Takapaka explained roughly about the topic a bit. Bascially It's about "Which is more rightful "Korea" between Joseon or Hanguk (or even Goyreo)?", not matter of exonym like a case of Germany-Saksa-Nemcy-Germania. This kind of "naming struggle" started from 1910, and now being relatable with the conflict on the legitimacy as Korea between the North and the South since 1945. I really think Takapa should upload jsut one more video about this topic someday.

Well, the English dictionary calls my country "Germany" even though the Germanen haven't existed for centuries.

This video is suddenly on everyone’s recommendations 😁