南朝鲜语言学界把朝鲜语学研究称为“国语学研究”,并把这门学科的重要性放在社会科学研究各领域之首。半岛上的朝鲜语学研究早于其他社会科学分支的研究,可追溯到朝鲜近代开化期。1907年,日本帝国主义吞并朝鲜之前,朝鲜政府曾设置“国文研究所”。20年代最有代表性的著名语言学家周时经及其学生在1921年底组织了第一个以研究朝鲜语文为目的的学术团体——朝鲜语研究会,它的研究主题是制定朝鲜语缀 The South Korean linguistics community calls Korean studies “the study of Chinese language” and puts the importance of this discipline at the top of every field of social science research. Korean studies on the peninsula earlier than other branches of social science research can be traced back to North Korea’s modern era of civilizations. Before the Japanese imperialists annexed North Korea in 1907, the North Korean government had set up the “Institute of Chinese Studies.” At the end of 1921, Zhou Shijing and his students, the most representative and famous linguist of the 1920s, organized the first academic organization called North Korean Studies to study Korean language. The theme of his study was to formulate the Korean suffix