Should Korea have more than one official language?

 Have you satisfied that Korea has just one official language to speak? It is good at the aspect of national unity. There are some local conflicts, even when there exists just dialects. If we had another official languages, there would be more crash between peoples. But there are some merits that more than one official language offers like Canada, which has two official languages, French and English. One or more official languages make a circumstance naturally to learn new language, reduce private education fees and helps to become a global leader.

 First, more than one official language make a circumstance naturally to learn new language from the early age. According to a study on the education of children, acquiring languages is as effective as people are young. Babyhood is a crucial period of linguistics learning. Chomsky, one of the linguists, said that children have an innate ability to learn languages. So if we have more than one official language, we could master another languages easier than when we are adults.

 Second, if we get more than one languages, we can reduce private education fees. These days, a lot of parents spend their money for their children’s private education. Above all, Korean parents think that early-childhood English teaching is most important of that. So some of them send their children to English language kindergarten. But, the cost of putting their children there is enormous. It is difficult for them to afford the tuition fees but there’s no choice for their children.

 Finally, more than one official language helps for citizens to become a global leader. Language ability has become important in the world we live in. Various fields of job require language abilities basically even excluding their mother tongue because most of industry need to communicate with another country’s industries in this global world. Today, most of jobs are linked in every corner of the world. So if Korean government adopt another official language, we could be competitive than other countries, which don’t choose any more official languages.

 I think two or trilingual people are likely to have a job easily, which they want to be. Because they can consider their jobs in a wide range of areas. Korean have taught their children Chinese at early age at least they are able to write their name in Chinese. And nowadays, Chinese have become more important as China grows up. How is it going to happen if we decide Chinese our another official language? I think we don’t need to learn Chinese with full stress. Also we can be competitive in the world industries.