A holiday commemorating the creation of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, is being observed Monday, Oct. 9. A linguistic milestone: Hangul Day, also known as Korean Alphabet Day, is an annual celebration ...

This past Sunday, October 9, was Hangul Day, a public holiday in South Korea. The sight of folks dancing in the streets in celebration of an alphabet speaks volumes about the significance of this ...

BAUBAU — In an eastern Indonesian village, schoolchildren scrawl the distinctive circles and lines of Hangul script on a whiteboard, but the language they are learning is not Korean. It is their own ...

Reporting from Seoul — South Korea, known for high-tech exports such as cars and cellphones, is sending a new product abroad: its alphabet. A tribe on a remote Indonesian island, in danger of losing ...

Hangul has continuously reflected the changes in Korean society, enriching the language while also establishing itself as a core foundation in the era of artificial intelligence (AI), expanding its ...

A state museum dedicated to Hangul, the Korean writing system, opens to the public today. The National Hangeul Museum, officials say, is the second in the world that deals exclusively with a nation’s ...

The Korean Cultural Center in Brazil has promoted the importance of Hangul and the affection Koreans have for it to the Brazilian press, in recognition of 'Hangul Day'. -Translation of the article ...

Today is Hangul Day, established to celebrate the Korean alphabet, traditionally said to have been invented in 1466 by King Sejong and his scholars - and to mark the day, there are currently at least ...

According to the McCune-Reischauer (MR) system, the Korean alphabet was spelled out as around 1939. It changed to hangul over several decades. The diacritic marks (breves and apostrophes) were dropped ...