National Institute of Korean Language

The National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL; ko: 국립국어원) is an agency of the South Korean government dedicated to regulating the Korean language.

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• Wasn't always a government agency!

  • Founded in 1984 as a non-government organisation.

  • Absorbed by the government in 1991.

• The NIKL has several cool projects:

  Urimalsaem (우리말샘)

  an online, open source, and collaborative dictionary à la Wiktionary.

  Foreign language dictionaries

  including English, Russian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Indonesian.

  (Public?) datasets

  used in several research projects, Korean Sign Language.