In my country, there are a lot of dialects. I don't know how many, but in every part of our country we can still hear different ways of speaking. Usually we are not able to understand all these dialects, and sometimes they create problems. Sometimes, too, people laugh at other people who speak their own dialect in another place.
　　　 Anyway, I don't agree with the traditional view that we should always use standard language. In Korea, the standard language is considered to be the modern language in Seoul which a well-educated person usually uses. A dialect is a language considered as part of a larger family of languages or a linguistic branch. In my opinion,rejecting the use of the other various dialects is unreasonable. It's important to keep some of these traditional dialects alive in each place regardless of region, because there are different characteristic traits in these dialects, and these have to be handed down to the following generations. Nowadays, younger people are not able to speak dialects well; in fact, we are losing this form of communication. For this reason, it is important to encourage people to continue to speak dialects.
　　　 For example, in Chejudo, there is a type of dialect, and most of the people use it. For example, the word for 'match' is bulgwack, the word for 'frog' is gaegoleby, and the word for 'cat' is gonaengi in the Cheju dialect. There are also some local works of literature written in this dialect. But this dialect is so different from those of other provinces that people think it may have been a separate language in the past.
　　　 Dialects are an important part of our national history. A lot of people think that speaking a dialect is rough and vulgar, so they despise dialect speakers, because they can't understand the dialect and they see the speakers as very eccentric and ignorant. In Korea, there is a belief that a person who does not use the Seoul language is ignorant when I am in the high school. We should discourge this sort of discrimination, and we should encourage the tradition of preserving local dialects, because they are an expression of our culture.