A study on the usage of “kindai-teki/geundae-jeok”, “gendai-teki/hyeondae-jeok” in Japanese and Korean - Focusing on the coincidence between the era of the subject and the era of the example -

Japanese and Korean both use many Chinese characters and have many vocabulary in common. However, even words using the same Chinese characters can have different usages. When “kindai-teki/geundae-jeok”, “gendai-teki/hyeondae-jeok” is used in “ideology and system”, “social issue”, “art and design” the usage is determined by the era of the subject in Japanese and Korean. However, when “gendai-teki/hyeondae-jeok” is used in “art and design” it gives the impression of innovative and avant-garde in Japanese and Korean. When “geundae-jeok”, “hyeondae-jeok” is used for “architecture, facility, landscape”, “technology, method, device” the usage is determined by the era of the subject in Korean. In contrast, the characteristics of modernization, such as mechanization and enlargement determine the usage in Japanese. Therefore, “kindai-teki” is used for objects that have the characteristics of modernization, even if the object's era is the present day. And when “gendai-teki” is used for “architecture, facility, landscape”, “technology, method, device” it gives the impression of innovative and avant-garde as “art and design” in Japanese.