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By Andrei Lankov I was walking with a friend of mine, one of the world’s leading authorities on East Asian linguistics, near Suwon station, when he said to me. “Actually, in the 1920s Korea had some brilliant minds in linguistics. Great scholars! Kim Tu-bong, for example. I heard that Kim Tu-bong had some involvement with politics when he lived in North Korea. Did he?”

联合国大会星期三通过决议，宣布2008年为国际语言年，确认联合国把使用多种语言作为促进、保护语言和文化多样性的重要途径，并强调联合国六种官方语言（正式语文）应该得到平等对待。