Korean Dictionaries, Pre-Modern Korean, and Pre-Modern Korean in Korean Dictionaries

The goal of this article is to examine the ways in which pre-modern Korean forms have been presented in Korean dictionaries thus far, and then to explore the most rationale methods of treating pre-modern Korean forms in future editions of new Korean dictionaries. First let us define what is meant by the term "Korean dictionary". In its most general, and common-sense meaning, a "Korean dictionary" can be any dictionary somehow concerned with the Korean language. But such a definition would be too broad for the purposes of this paper. Let us restrict the meaning of "Korean dictionary" here to "a dictionary whose entries are Korean words, and whose definitions are in Korean".