녹화사업

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 綠化 (“forestation; greening”) + 事業 (“project”).

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈno̞(ː)kʰwa̠sʰa̠ʌ̹p̚]
  • Phonetic hangul: [노(ː)콰사업]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?Nokhwasa'eop
Revised Romanization (translit.)?Noghwasa'eob
McCune–Reischauer?Nokhwasaŏp
Yale Romanization?nōk.hwasaep

Noun

녹화사업 • (nokhwasa'eop) (hanja 綠化事業)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 녹화(綠化) (nokhwa),‎ 사업(事業) (sa'eop).

Proper noun

녹화사업 • (Nokhwasa'eop) (hanja 綠化事業)

  1. (historical, euphemistic) forcible conscription of university students to spy on their anti-government peer activists during the Fifth Republic of Korea
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