Jaehee Kwak
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jaehee Kwak is involved.
Article
2025 Hanja usage in Korean newspaper headlines: A diachronic analysis of language in shaping national identity Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 35:2, pp. 184–201 | Article
This study traces the decline of Hanja (Chinese characters) in Korean newspaper headlines over the 20th century, analyzing its relationship to colonialism, nationalism, and modernization. Although Hangul was invented in the 15th century, Hanja remained in formal Korean writing into the 1900s.… read more
