When Korea was under Japanese rule, the use of the Korean language was regulated by the Japanese government. To counter the influence of the Japanese authorities, the Korean Language Society [ko] (한글 학회) began collecting dialect data from all over Korea and later created their own standard version of Korean, Pyojuneo, with the release of their book Unification of Korean Spellings (한글 맞춤법 통일안) in 1933.[3] On January 19, 1988, the Ministry of Education issued the Regulations of the Standard Language, Ministry of Education Announcement No. 88-2 (표준어 규정 (문교부 고시 제88-2호)) to establish the modern standard Korean, it was later amended on March 28, 2017 via Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Announcement No. 2017-13 (표준어 규정 (일부 개정안 문화체육관광부 고시 제2017-13호)).[4][5]