A Survey on None Universal Standardized Chinese Characters of South Korea’s Main Newspapers Published in Simplified Ones
한국주요보업간체중문판표외용자조사
Based on statistics of 7,629,399 characters from South Korea’s three largest newspapers in simplified Chinese corpus from the year of 2017 to 2019, we, with the help of a webzip of Chinese research helper and word segmentation software, found that the total number of font shapes was 5582 and that of None Universal Standardized Chinese Characters was 997, the latter of which contained traditional ones, variant and old glyphs, characters of dialects, wrong uses, names of people, places and objects, terminology and swearing, characters with overseas origin, and so on. A systematic and comprehensive survey of None Universal Standardized Chinese Characters helps to solve the problems of information switching and language communication between home and abroad. The comparative study can explore the feasibility, method and scope of cooperation between home and abroad in characters, which has a strong reference value not just for the standardization of Korean educational characters including machine-used Chinese characters and those for examination but for making language policy.