National Language and its Education in Transition Era

Abstract

Any national language is doomed to follow the same destiny of the nation. It is turned around by the nation's social and political changes. In the present paper, two cases were to be examined : that of France, the nation which has long been recognized for its efforts for prevention of the French language with visible and positive results, and, that of Bulgaria, the origin of Kyrill alphabet, who has not been lucky enough to maintain national integrity(or, dignity) for over six hundred years. Still these two states share some common features, like EU spirit and globalization, which has a lot to do with mentality of its language users and policy makers. By observing actual conditions and history of national language and its education matters in these two cases, the future of Korean language as the national language and its education matters may hopefully visioned under clearer insight