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Unlike Chinese and Japanese, Korean does employ spaces between words.

What constitutes a lexical word differs from what constitutes an orthographic word. For instance, particles which can is some ways be compared to English prepositions, are written suffixed or cliticized to the end of a word.

My Korean is very rudimentary to say the least but I believe I have seen in printed Korean the particle 의 ("of" or "'s") at the beginning of the next line when the noun it would normally be attached to came at the end of the previous line.

I would like to know is this the only place that Korean orthographic words can be separated? Or can line breaks occur at any position in the middle of a word?

(There is a relevant article on Wikipedia, but it lumps Chinese, Japanese, and Korean together, with Korean receiving the least specific attention.)

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My evidence turned out to be flawed. I've deleted my answer until I can fix this. – acattle Nov 28 '12 at 6:07
I'm sorry about the flawed evidence but I'm eagerly awaiting any more such detailed answers, thank you for your effort. – hippietrail Nov 28 '12 at 6:08
@hippietrail Have you taken a look at the Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm? Link: unicode.org/reports/tr14 – Dono Nov 28 '12 at 7:24
While I'm trying to find a better source to back up my [currently deleted] answer, I thought I'd add this link back into the discussion. Although not an academic source, it seems to suggest that line breaks can occur at any point (it warns about possible ambiguities, but it seems to be more of a style issue than a grammatical one) – acattle Nov 28 '12 at 15:15
@Dono: I was expecting the Unicode link to just contain dry technical jargon, but actually it does seem to claim that both styles exist for Korean. I do trust the Unicode people more than computer people generally when it comes to language issues but I'd still like to hold out for a Korean-specific reference. – hippietrail Nov 29 '12 at 4:12
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