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Although loanwords do not take up a large proportion in the Korean vocabulary system, the actual usage frequency of loanwords is increasing day by day with the influx of foreign cultures. Loanwords are not foreign words and must abide by the language norms of Korean when they are used. Therefore, loanwords are also an important learning object for foreigners in the process of learning Korean. The Basic Korean Dictionary contains 1,569 loanwords, which can be considered as basic loanwords compared to 23,918 loanwords in the Standard Korean Dictionary. This article will examine the dictionary information of these basic loanwords and their influence on Korean learners. The dictionary information is mainly analyzed from three aspects: pronunciation, parts of speech and meaning. The acceptance of foreign learners is examined through dictionary information comprehension and user evaluations of college students studying Korean in China. The purpose of this paper is to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the way of compiling loanwords in existing dictionaries, and try to find out what can be improved and supplemented, so as to better serve Korean learners. At the same time, hybrid words such as “loanwords + native words” are also included in the research scope, so as to highlight the difficulties of dictionary users and the shortage of dictionary information.
