The event featured performances, exhibitions, hands-on activities and educational programs centered on Hangeul. Sejong ...

King Sejong the Great invented Hangeul in 1443 with the goal of increasing literacy among commoners who had few chances to learn the logographic hanja, or Chinese characters. Out of respect for the ...

Whenever feeling down in her studies, Gulperi Kucukkaraca would wield her pen and craft her favorite Korean word in cursive on a white sheet of paper: 꿈. The small ritual served as a guiding light, ...

Hangeul, the writing system of the Korean language, was created by King Sejong the Great and his scholars in 1443. The excellence of Hangeul began to be recognized by many prominent Western linguists ...

Long ago, the Korean people used to write using Chinese characters, called Hanja (한자) in Korean. They didn’t have their own alphabet. However, King Sejong the Great (세종대왕) (1397-1450), the fourth ...

If we delve deeper into the insight that "Hangul is like incorporating Chinese characters into a phonetic alphabet," the historical evolution of the written culture that the Korean language has ...

South Korean exports are world-renowned among those who shop for mobile phones or flat-screen TVs. But the country is offering a different export to a small Indonesian community - its writing system.

ON OCTOBER 9th South Koreans celebrate the 567th birthday of Hangul, the country's native writing system, with a day off work. South Korea is one of the few countries in the world to celebrate its ...