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한글날
Korean Alphabet Day
Hangul Day
● Pronounced han-gEUH-l
● Celebrated in South Korea on
October 9th
● In North Korea, it is called
Joseon-gul Day, and is
celebrated on January 15th
History of Hangul
● Before Hangul, Koreans used Chinese
characters (hanja)
● Created by Sejong the Great, the fourth king of
the Joseon Dynasty
○ Goal: To create a simple language that anyone can
use
○ First written in Hunmin Jeongeum, “The Proper
Sounds for the Education of the People”
● Faced a lot of opposition at first from the elite
Modern Hangul
● Ju Si-Gyeong coined the term “hangul” which translates to “great script”
○ Established the Korean Language Research Society, or Hangul Society
○ Standardized the language
● Use of “hanja” in modern writing
○ Students in South Korea are expected to learn 1800 hanja characters by the end of high school
○ Official documents and academic papers are written in a mixture of hanja and hangul
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