What's the difference between 한국어 and 한국말?
I learned that the word for the Korean language is 한국어 but I just came across 한국말 today and at translate.google.com both 한국어 and 한국말 translate to "Korean"

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Both of them have the same meaning "Korean language". But grammatically 한국어 is written Korean language and 한국말 is verbal Korean language

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read this forum thread:

http://www.koreanclass101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2402&start=0

and this article:

http://blogs.koreanclass101.com/blog/2008/08/06/whats-the-difference-between-한국어-and-한국말

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한국어 is Korean language 
한국말 is Korean words

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mar is talking. and uh means writing

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The difference is just whether they can be written in hanja or not.

한국말 (韓國말)
 한국-어(韓國語)

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