As the world is being globalized, more than one language seems compulsory to have the ability to fluently use foreign language. However, this doesn't require a policy to designate the second language as an official language. People who are related to those works can learn languages through education. Korea should not have more than one official language for three reasons: social confusion, unnecessary of multilingual, and expansion of Korean.
A world dominant language coming into our society as another official language can cause social confusion. If English that most Korean parents and companies prefer is selected to be sanctioned, loud voices probably argue for more usage of the second language rather than our first language. This circumstance would foster the chaos of the society, which affects a negative effect on the stream of our nation. Although this confusion would even out, it is time and cost consuming and considering no change after the time when we already had some talks about English as an official language a few years ago, this implies it is no need.
As we realized, it is not necessary to establish official languages and we can just learn them. While some say it is essential to make use of major languages in this globalized world, it doesn't mean we have to set it as official. If then, all other countries should arrange English or Chinese as their official language. A problem of language replacement could be developed as mostly dominant languages would be added to an authorized community language. By exploiting activated programs or internet websites that is helpful for foreign languages, people who need or want to learn them can selectively and individually gain many chances to be educated.
Keeping Korean as one official language has an effect of spreading our national language. Canada where bilingual of English and French is used puts every notice in both letters. As such, if we validate similar policy, foreigners, at least living in Korea, probably never feel learning Korean is needful. It would not give any motive to learn Korean because they can just live on without knowing even a word in our language. Even though some may think there are already some foreigners living without learning Korean, that is just a part and inconvenience should still exist to give them incentives or even curiosity.
National official language should be kept as one, Korean in order to prevent any social chaos, needlessness of the policy and to disseminate Korean. Why don't we fulfill effort to propagate Korean widely to become prevailing, instead of thinking whether to bring others to our special community language or not.
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