The purpose of this study is to find out correlation between political belief among majors in Korean linguistics and attitudes toward language policy. For this study, 100 majors in Korean linguistics were participated in a questionnaire as study subjects. The significant results from the study are described as follows.
Firstly, it was found that the ratio of conservative subjects was markedly higher than progressive subjects for supporting regulation for codified standard language.
Secondly, progressive subjects were more supportive of reforming discriminatory expressions than conservative subjects.
Thirdly, there was not a significant difference in opinions about a use of honorific, among conservative and progressive subjects.
Fourthly, there was not a significant difference in opinions about an exclusive use of Hangeul, among conservative and progressive subjects.
Fifthly, there was not a difference in position regarding a use of English as an official language, based on the subjects’ political belief, however, the conservative subjects were slightly more supportive than progressive subjects.
Sixthly, regarding language standard for North and South Korea after unification, the conservative subjects supported for using South Korea standard language norm while the progressive subjects were likely to support balance between South and North language norms. Therefore, there was a high correlation between the subjects’ political belief and language policy after unification.