Editing Hanja (section)

===Print media===
[[File:신라면(봉지면) 구성품.jpg|thumb|left|A packet of Shin Ramyun. The Chinese character {{linktext|辛}}, meaning 'spicy', is prominently displayed.]]
In South Korea, Hanja is used most frequently in ancient literature, legal documents, and scholarly monographs, where they often appear without the equivalent Hangul spelling. Usually, only those words with a specialized or ambiguous meaning are printed in Hanja. In mass-circulation books and magazines, Hanja is generally used rarely, and only to gloss words already spelled in Hangul when the meaning is ambiguous. Hanja are also often used in newspaper headlines as abbreviations or to eliminate ambiguity.<ref>Brown 1990: 120</ref>

In formal publications, personal names are also usually glossed in Hanja in parentheses next to the Hangul. Aside from academic usage, Hanja are often used for advertising or decorative purposes in South Korea, and appear frequently in athletic events and cultural parades, packaging and labeling, dictionaries and [[atlas]]es. For example, the Hanja {{linktext|辛}} ({{Transliteration|ko|sin}} or {{Transliteration|ko|shin}}, meaning 'spicy') appears prominently on packages of [[Shin Ramyun]] noodles.<ref name="신라면, 더 쫄깃해진 면발…세계인 울리는 '국가대표 라면'">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2016021628251|script-title=ko:신라면, 더 쫄깃해진 면발…세계인 울리는 '국가대표 라면'|website=[[The Korea Economic Daily]]|date=17 February 2016|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> In contrast, North Korea eliminated the use of Hanja even in academic publications by 1949 on the orders of [[Kim Il Sung]], a situation that has since remained unchanged.<ref name="Hannas 1997: 67"/> 
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