A Study on Cultural Vocabulary in Korean-Japanese Cultural Textbooks

In this study, cultural vocabulary was classified into high-context cultural vocabulary and low-context cultural vocabulary according to the degree of inclusion of the cultural context, and the cultural vocabulary shown in the cultural textbooks of both Korea and Japan was analyzed. As a result, most of the cultural textbooks contained a large number of low-context cultural vocabulary, and the number of high-context cultural vocabulary was relatively small. High-context cultural vocabulary was often included while introducing cultural phenomena in modern Korean society that are different from foreign learners' own culture. In the case of cultural vocabulary used in both high-context cultural vocabulary and low-context cultural vocabulary, the frequency of use was high. In view of this, it is believed that the high-context cultural vocabulary was widely used as the original meaning of the vocabulary, but was adopted as a vocabulary to refer to when a social or cultural phenomenon occurred and used in the meaning of both. In addition, According to the type of formation, high-context cultural vocabulary was classified into high-context cultural vocabulary including the age and historical backgrounds, high-context cultural vocabulary whose meaning has shifted and changed according to trends, and high-context cultural vocabulary indicating a new social and cultural phenomenon. We looked at how cultural vocabulary used in both high-context cultural vocabulary and low-context cultural vocabulary is included in the textbook. Based on the classification of cultural vocabulary according to the degree of inclusion of context, the teaching-learning stage was divided into 'primary-intermediate-advanced' in consideration of the excellence in cultural education.