This week we dived into discussing certain writing systems and the the writing system of Korea came to interest me. So who was King Sejong? Who was King Sejong? And what did he create? KING SEJONG was the fourth king of Joseon-dynasty Korea and he was the one who instituted Han’gŭl. King Sejong was aware that Koreans didn’t have a writing of their own and he felt that Chinese writing could not match the complexity or grammar like Koreans. And knew that there can be another writing system where his people can express more of their emotions and create a writing system so that everyone can have a chance to learn. So thats when he developed Han’gŭl.
- Han’gŭl wasn’t originally accepted because of prior Japanese occupation. They were against it because Japan and Korea had differences when it came to writing. Japan felt that Korea was going against the tradition of using scripts other than Chinese words. It wasn’t until after WW2 which brought the end of Japanese domination that Korea had another opporunity for han’gŭl to be considered to be established as a writing system of Korea.
Currently Hangul is the alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. Which consists of 24 letters (originally 28), including 14 consonants and 10 vowels.
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