Leica MP "2005 Edition Leica 60th Jubilee Independence 1945-2005 ROK"

RdEoSg said:
Soooo.. why does a camera celebrating Korea write Republic of Korea in Chinese on the top of it?!?!?!

Or did you mean it says that in Korean?
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In the old days, only aristocrats could read and write in Korea using Chinese. The actual written Korean characters (Hanguel) didn't come along until the Joseon Dynasty created by Sejeong. Chinese characters are used because that's how it was written back then.

Chinese characters used today in newspaper headlines and when writing ones name on official documents amongst other things.

Even the Japanese use Chinese Characters (Kanji) in their writing system.

If I were in charge, I would have used the Korean spelling......
 
Ah now it makes sense! I by no means can read chinese or korean, though I do have some chinese tattooed to my leg but thats another story, but usually you an tell the difference between the languages anyways. Korean has a different look to it and this didn't look korean to me either!

I didn't know that chinese was used in other langauges.
 
In the ancient days Korean was a spoken, not a written language. The Korean written language was developed (correct me if I am wrong) around 800 years ago. Same for Japan. This is not unusual.
 
I've always wanted to try and learn it. I took Japanese in college and found the 3 different forms of written language difficult to remember. I heard Korean is all one phonetical system, with some Chinese charecters but they aren't used as much as in Japanese whcih use them almost all the time unless talking about foreign things.
 
No, LEICA MP 0.72 LHSA 1968-2003 Gray Hammertone kit. The exterior is similar to the 35mm Summicron-m V.1

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