철학

Etymology
., which was coined by in 1874.

First attested in Korean in 1888, but apparently only truly popularized after the establishment of the Japanese protectorate in 1905. The earliest known attestation of the word clearly equivalent to the Western sense of "philosophy" dates to 1906. 's English-Korean dictionary translated philosophy only as in its 1897 edition. In a 1911 republishing, Gale added 철학, becoming the first dictionary to attest the term.

The Korean scholar, writing before the adoption of the Japanese term, variously described Western philosophers as engaging in for e.g. Socrates and Plato,  for e.g. Aristotle and Hegel, and  for e.g.  and. These terms were largely displaced by 철학 and other standard Japanese usages.

Noun

 * 1) philosophy