How do South Korean and North Korean Korean differ in spelling?

South and North Korean differ only in minor matters of spelling, alphabetization, and vocabulary choice. Despite these regional variations, both nations essentially endorse the unified standards for the Korean language that were originally proposed by the Korean Language Society in 1933.12

While the fundamental writing system—known as Hangul in South Korea and Chosŏn muntcha in North Korea—remains the same, the two regions maintain distinct naming conventions for the script and its letters. Additionally, North Korea has made systematic efforts to eliminate Chinese and Western loanwords from its vocabulary, and it has used the script exclusively without Chinese characters in publications since 1945.342