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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The King Sejong Institute (KSI) Foundation began hosting from May 15 the preliminaries of this year's KSI Korean Speaking and Writing Contest at 256 branches in 88 countries to mark the birthday of ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government finalized the design of the Hangeul Character Zone, which is being created at Sejongno Park by the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, after a review by the Seoul ...