Present Situation and Issues of Korean Lexicography - Focused on Corpus Revolution and User Participation -

한국어 사전학의 현황과 과제- 말뭉치 혁명과 사용자 참여를 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study is to review how Korean dictionaries have been developed under the influence of corpus revolution and user participation in dictionary making process. It also discusses prospects for the future of Korean lexicography and proposes lexicographers' role to meet the demands from these changes. It has been almost 30 years since corpus linguistics was applied to the field of lexicography. Recently, the user generate contents have a huge impact on online dictionaries such as wiki model, Urban Dictionary and so on. Korean lexicography in the future should focus on the description of semantic units analyzed from Korean corpus and create mechanism to embrace user generating contents online dictionaries. Lexicographers need to set up system to improve the quality of these user contributions. This study traces the impact of Korean corpus linguistics and user participation and suggest a few directions for corpus-based dictionary.