After a hiatus of five years, the two Koreas have resumed a joint project to publish a Korean dictionary.
 
The Unification Ministry said South and North Korean scholars will discuss the timetable and direction of the publication during a meeting currently being held in Shenyang, China from Tuesday to August 6. The scholars will also share the progress made on each side during the suspended period of the joint project.
 
A group of 32 South Korean lexicographers and officials will attend the meeting.
 
The dictionary project is a part of the inter-Korean efforts to boost non-political exchanges and to narrow widening language gaps across the border. The South Korean government gives financial support of three billion won to the project every year.
 
The project got off the ground in February 2006 after an inter-Korean committee was launched, but halted in 2009 after South Korea imposed sanctions on inter-Korean exchanges, following the North's sinking of a South Korean naval ship.