King+Sejong

NAME : King Sejong (세종대왕)

May 7, 1397 – May 18, 1450

__ PART 1 DO YOU KNOW WHO IS KING SEJONG? __ In  1446, King Sejong the great, the forth king of the Chosun dynasty, published 훈민정음(Hunminjungeum), the Korean alphabet. It consists of 28 consonants and vowels. Each consonant and vowel are combined and it becomes a letter. For more than 500 years, this alphabet is being used by Koreans and now we are calling it 'Hangul'.

From the ancient times, Koreans used the Chinese characters. We spoke our own language but didn't have our own alphaet. There are more than 5,000 characters in Chinese characters so it was difficult to learn and use. Only members of the high class were literate and they had to learn the quite complex character in order to read and write. For the goverment, it was a problem to announce something to their citizens. Most lower classes didn't know how to read the Chinese characters so sometimes the information from the goverment was misinterpreted.



Hangul ( Korean)

King Sejong the Great profoundly impacted Korean history with his introduction of hangul, the native phonetic alphabet system for the Korean language. Before Hangul(Korean) was created, only members of the highest class were literate (hanja was typically used to write Korean by using adapted Chinese characters while Hanmun was sometimes used to write court documents in classical Chinese). One would have to learn the quite complex hanja characters in order to read and write Korean. Further, despite modifications to the Chinese characters, hanja could prove cumbersome when transcribing the Korean language due to considerable differences in grammar and sentence order. King Sejong presided over the introduction of the 28 letter Korean alphabet, with the explicit goal being that Koreans from all classes would read and write. He also attempted to establish a cultural identity for his people through its unique script. First published in 1446, anyone could learn Hangul in a matter of days. Persons unfamiliar with Hangul can typically pronounce Korean script accurately after only a few hours study. He created the Hangul characters from scratch, and based each one on a simplified diagram of the patterns made by the mouth, tongue and teeth when making the sound related to the character. Words are built by writing the characters in a syllabic blocks. The blocks of letters are then strung together linearly.

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