2010년 10월 13일 수요일

The World's Greatest Invention - 'Hangul'

    On October 9th, it was 'Hangul's anniversary. 'Hangul' is the Korean alphabet. It was King Sejong that invented 'Hangul'. Thank to him, many Korean people use the hangul letters to read and write every day.

 
    I think that 'Hangul' is the greatest invention. Many scientists said that 'Hangul' is the most scientific letter system in the world because it expresses all of its sounds perfectly. 'Hangul' consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels. If you know 24 letters, you can express all that you want to say. How surprising the Korean alphabet system is!
 
    Another reason is that 'Hangul' is easy to read and write. King Sejong invented 'Hangul' for the people who didn't know any letter system. King Sejong thought that anyone, including women, should know how to read and write with these letters. So King Sejong made 'Hangul' so that it would be easy to learn. After that, everyone was able to easily read books and write letters.

 
    Recently, the Jjia-Jjia tribe, which is  an Indonesian minority race, selected 'Hangul' as their official letter system. I hope that many nations that don't have a letter system for their language select 'Hangul' as their official letter system.

    I added a few link for learning hangul. http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html

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  1. Hi Yoon-bum,

    I think it's very interesting that another culture has decided to use the Korean characters for their language. Here's an interactive link for helping foreigners learn the Korean alphabet: http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html

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  2. Obviously the Hangle is very sientific character whole over the world. I really satisfied when I am using the Hangle everytimes. Thank you Yoon-bum

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