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The National Institute of Korean Language

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The National Institute of Korean Language is a Seoul-based government language regulator, founded in 1991 with origins as an NGO established in 1984.

Biography

The National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL; Korean: 국립국어원) is a language regulator of the Korean language based in Seoul, South Korea. It was created on January 23, 1991, by Presidential Decree No. 13163 (November 14, 1990). The organization previously used several names, including the Academy of the Korean Language (국어연구소) when first founded as a non-government organization in 1984, and the National Academy of the Korean Language (국립국어연구원) when it became a government agency in 1991.

The institute received its current Korean name in 2004 and its current English name in 2015. Within the NIKL is the Center for Teaching and Learning Korean. The National Institute of Korean Language is associated with the Sejong Korean 1A Student Book (English Version) (2022).

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