Approximately 78 million people living on the Korean peninsula speak Korean. The entire population of North and South Korea speaks this language, while there are certainly differences between the Korean dialect spoken in the north and the one spoken in the south, the dialects are mutually understandable.
North Korean typically refers to the Korean language as Chos nmal although it is also called urimal. The standard of North Korea is based on the way it is spoken in the capital P'yngyang while in the south the standard is the way it is spoken in Seoul. The differences between these two forms of the Korean language does not make it impossible for speakers of either group to communicate with each other since the variances are more or less comparable to the Spanish spoken in Spain and the Spanish spoken in Latin America.
Immigrants living in the former Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, United States, Brazil, Japan, United Kingdom, as well as the Philippines.
