What are the best Korean movies to improve my Korean?
Of the 3000 languages in use currently, Korean is known to be the 13th most commonly used language. Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate. It is an East Asian language spoken by about 77 million people and 5.6 million consider Korean as a Heritage Language. Modern Korean is understood to have descended from the Middle Korean, that emerged from the Old Korean, which itself, culminated from the Proto-Koreanic language, that is suggested to have its linguistic homeland somewhere in Manchuria. It is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each country. It is a recognised minority language in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin Province, China. It is also spoken in parts of Sakhalin, Russia and Central Asia. Korean people in the former USSR refer to themselves as Koryo-saram and/or Koryo-in and call the language Koryo-mal. The English word “Korean” is derived from Goryeo, which is thought to be the first Korean dynasty known to Western nations.