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Korean geographers should make efforts to use formally the geographic terms originated from Korean language instead of those derived from Chinese characters. The Chinese geographic terms are so difficult to understand that they can often be a major obstacle to studying geography at school. Korean geographers need to learn a lesson from the Korean Archeology Community that has respectably achieved the terminology transition from Chinese characters to Korean language characters in the past fifty years. Hopefully, I expect that the terminology transition of Korean geographers in the near future will raise the level of geography up to a highly favorite academic discipline.

shows the experimental Korean terms that the existing terms derived from Chinese characters can be replaced with. If Korean geographers and the Korean specialists in geography education have to find the way how to standardize the geographic terminologies of two Koreas, i.e. South Korea and North Korea in the near future, I think that the standardization of geographic terminologies should be based on the terms originated from Korean language instead of those derived from Chinese characters. Finally, I would expect that the transition movement of geographic terminology may contribute to the Korean language movements for academic/technical terms in Korea.