녹화사업

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 綠化 (“forestation; greening”) + 事業 (“project”).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈno̞(ː)kʰwa̠sʰa̠ʌ̹p̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [노(ː)콰사업]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	Nokhwasa'eop
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	Noghwasa'eob
McCune–Reischauer?	Nokhwasaŏp
Yale Romanization?	nōk.hwasaep

Noun

녹화사업 • (nokhwasa'eop) (hanja 綠化事業)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 녹화(綠化) (nokhwa),‎ 사업(事業) (sa'eop).

Proper noun

녹화사업 • (Nokhwasa'eop) (hanja 綠化事業)

1. (historical, euphemistic) forcible conscription of university students to spy on their anti-government peer activists during the Fifth Republic of Korea