SDLC 110 : Cultural Post 4

[David Kim]

The Korean writing system is interesting. Other Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese have a totally different system where each letter is a word in itself and have their own meanings. Despite the fact that Korea allowed western influence later than Japan and China, its writing system is very similar to European/ American languages. Korean has alphabets just like English and each alphabets don't hold any inherent meaning in themselves. You make up the word with these alphabets and put them together to form the sentence just like English. This writing system was creating by King Se-Jong because he thought the older version of Korean was way too hard to learn for commoners. He wanted to create a more accessible language that everyone in Korea could use. Needless to say, it was successful and he created a very interesting language.