• Korean Linguistics
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• v.76
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• pp.143-186
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• 2017

The name list of Korean meals in this paper includes the names of main meals, as well as refreshments between meals. They are deeply related to the time when people have a meal during the day. In other words, the names have generally consisted of two constituents, namely a temporal expression and a name of staple food. This means that Korean's eating habits influenced the names at the time they were formed. Therefore, in this paper, I researched the names of Korean meals which were found in the literature written during 15C ~ early 20C, and studied the diachronic changes happened in the name list of Korean meals, as well as the individual names. As a result, it is verified that how frequent and when people had meals in those days determined the name list of Korean meals, and the biggest change occurred when the midday meal was incorporated into the main meals.