Urimalsaem
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| Available in | Korean |
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| Founded | October 5, 2016 |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Owner | National Institute of Korean Language |
| URL | opendict.korean.go.kr (in Korean) |
| Commercial | no |
Urimalsaem (Korean: 우리말샘) is an online open source Korean language dictionary. It was launched on October 5, 2016, with an initial set of 1,109,722 headwords. It aims to capture neologisms (new words), jargon, colloquial expressions, and words specific to dialects. It is owned and operated by the South Korean government agency National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL), but anyone may contribute.
Urimalsaem is an online, open source, and collaborative Korean language dictionary.[1][2][3] While any user can edit the dictionary,[4] registered users review proposed edits before they are displayed on the website. Reviewers are generally lexicographers or linguists, who not only approve words, but remove duplicate definitions and formalize terms.[5] This differentiates it from the similar Naver Open Dictionary (NOD), which allows for multiple duplicate entries with casual definitions, like the Western website Urban Dictionary.[5]
All of its content, unless otherwise specified, is offered under the Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Korea (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR), which allows for all use, including commercial, although attribution is required even if the material is transformed.[6][7]