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Welcome to a lecture on Asian languages at Östasiatiska museet. How does Korean relate to the written and spoken forms of the other major Asian languages? What influence has Chinese had on other languages in the region? What characters and alphabets are used in Japan?

Hear three highly knowledgeable linguists talk about some of the major Asian languages.

Korean will be presented by Gabriel Jonsson, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Korean Section of the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholms universitet. Japanese will be presented by Gunnar Linder, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture in the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholms universitet.

Chinese will be presented by Torbjörn Lodén, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language and Culture at Stockholms universitet.

This year marks 65 years since Koreanska Sällskapet was founded by veterans of the Swedish field hospital during the Korean War and military personnel who had served on the supervisory commission that monitors the armistice. Anyone with an interest in Korea is welcome to become a member. The association regularly organises activities and lectures, awards a scholarship and publishes four issues of the magazine Yoboseyo each year.