{"id":769,"date":"2011-06-29T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=769"},"modified":"2011-06-29T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:34:37","slug":"multilingual-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/06\/29\/multilingual-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One sees a rapid increase in languages around Seoul other than Korean and English. Here are two notable bits of signage. <\/p>\n<p>One is a mobile phone store with a sign in Chinese aimed at the increasing Chinese market in Korea. I am told that Chinese students have often more disposable income than Korean students at Korean universities. Have not conducted a study yet. <\/p>\n<p>The other sign is for an Indian culture event. The poster does not assume a readership of Hindi, or maybe it does. In any case, Koreans previously had no tolerance for the Hindi language. That environment is changing quite rapidly.  <\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-769 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sk-goes-chinese.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sk-goes-chinese-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/signs-in-hindu.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/signs-in-hindu-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sees a rapid increase in languages around Seoul other than Korean and English. Here are two notable bits of signage. One is a mobile phone store with a sign in Chinese aimed at the increasing Chinese market in Korea. I am told that Chinese students have often more disposable income than Korean students at &#8230; <a title=\"Multilingual Seoul\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/06\/29\/multilingual-seoul\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Multilingual Seoul\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1831212,10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature-and-language","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}