 |
| My messy Korean writing! |
October 9th is called "Han-gul-nal (한글날)" in Korea. Hangul simply means the Korean alphabet. It was created by King Sejong in 1443, through a document called "Hun-min-jeong-eum." Although there was a spoken Korean language, we didn't have written alphabet other than "hanja" which refers to Chinese characters. Only the privileged aristocrats called "yang-ban" were taught to read and write hanja, therefore most of the commoners were illiterate. After the invention of hangul, the commoners gained the access to learn the language, and King Sejong also established Korea's own language, separated from Chinese (hanja).
I'm proud to be Korean!
No comments:
Post a Comment