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A study on the Role of British Geographic Societies on Formation of ‘Conventional English names’ on Korea

  • Journal of the Korean Cartographic Association
  • Abbr : JKCA
  • 2011, 11(1), pp.13-24
  • Publisher : The Korean Cartographic Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Geography > Geography in general > Cartography

Kim, Jong-yeon 1

1충북대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Geographical names of certain area can be divided into endonym and exonym by the creater and users of the names. The most influential exonyms for Korea are the ‘conventional English names’ given by western powers in 19th century. The roles of British geographical societies, Royal Geographical Society and Scottish Geographical Society, on the formation of conventional English names are investigated in this study. The reports on the newly explored area by the soldiers and foreign office officials were read in the meeting of geographical societies. Exploring activities on newly colonized area also funded by the geographical societies. Geographical names and informations are collected, studied and distributed by the societies and the results of these activities were used for the British government’s activities for standardization of the geographical names through PCGN. The activities of PCGN affected the global standardization geographical names and publication and limits of sea and the ocean by IHO. The information reported to geographical societies is based on the results from coastal survey activities of the Royal navy, documents and books collected from China and communication with local people in Korea. Further research activities are needed for the information on geographical names of Korea used by foreign travellers and cartographers.

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