[학술논문] The Number of Entry Words and Examples in Korean Dictionaries
...headword scales can be said to be 120,000 headwords. Depending on whether you aim for a usage-oriented dictionary based on
corpus analysis or a vocabulary list dictionary, the size of the dictionary's headword selection will vary, which will be an important criterion for establishing the direction for new dictionary
compilation, such as the subsequent dictionary of the Yonsei Korean Dictionary.