He studied the Chinese language since his childhood. After studying modern linguistics in Seoul, he established the Korean Language System Society (조선문동식회; 朝鮮文同式會) in 1896. He hosted several seminars in the National Language Discussion Centre of the Sangdong Youth Academy (_동__; 尚洞青年學院國語講習所).
He proposed that the Korean parts of speech include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, unconjugation adjectives (관형사 ; 冠形詞), auxiliaries (助詞), conjunction, exclamations, and stop word (?) (종지사 ; 終止詞).
In his 1914 publication, Sounds of the Final Day (?) promotes writing Han-geul horizontally.
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Ju Si-gyeong coined the name "Han-geul" to identify the unique Korean writing system, which had existed for many centuries under several other names until then.
His name is sometimes written without the disambiguity hyphen: Ju Sigyeong and Chu Sigyong. In this case, they are often mispronounced as Sig-yeong and Sig-yong respectively.
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See also List of Koreans.