ABSTRACT
This chapter, first, briefly presents the history of South Korean sociolinguistics during the 1970s~2000s, and then analyzes and discusses the recent trends of sociolinguistic research in South Korea. Based on the analysis of the research themes of the articles published in Sahoeeoneohak (the Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea published by the Sociolinguistic Society of Korea) during the 2010s, the chapter shows that seven subfields of sociolinguistics that are most researched in South Korea are discourse analysis, sociolinguistic studies of education, language variation, language and the media, honorifics and address terms, linguistic anthropology, and language policy. Research trends of each of these subfields are, then, discussed along with the introduction of representative studies in each area.
