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Is English being challenged by Mandarin in South Korea?1

A report on recent educational and social trends involving the two languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2017

Hyeon-Seok Kang
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China's stunning economic growth is now widely recognized around the globe (Wong, 2009). Its gross domestic product (GDP) is now the second largest in the world, and, according to the World Bank (2015), in terms of GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP), it already has the world's largest economy, surpassing that of the United States. It is commonly claimed that China will be the strongest economic power in the near future, and that it will have a concomitantly more potent political and cultural influence on the rest of the world.

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English Today , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 40 - 46
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The present research was supported by a 2015 research fund grant from Dankoo University, South Korea.

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