Cultural Post #4

[Ann Pongsakul]

I find the Korean writing system to be interesting, particularly the way it's structured. I read that Koreans originally used the Chinese writing system, which consists of symbols that represent a word. The current Korean writing system, Hangul consists of an alphabet, but to make one sound of a word, the consonants and vowels are combined to make a block, which I think resembles the Chinese characters. One thing that confuses me about the way sentences are written is the use of spaces. So far I have seen instances where a whole sentence lacks any spaces in between words and than certain sentences where there are spaces between words. I haven't seen much explanation in any of my sources as to when to use spaces and when not to or if there even is a rule. After googling around I saw that general rules are that the noun and verb are separated by a space and same goes with noun, adverb and verb. There are no spaces with particles and verb endings however.