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 ...

Hangul Day is a national Korean commemorative day marking the invention and proclamation of Hangul, the Korean alphabet. The event was attended by some 1,200 participants, including senior government ...

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 Korean alphabet, called hangul, is recognized globally as one of the most creative phonetic systems in the world. The current hangul system is composed of 24 basic letters, but it wasn't always ...

It wasn’t a person and it wasn’t even a place. It was a language, or more precisely, the beautiful and poetic Korean alphabet known as Hangul. When I landed in South Korea, I had no idea that a series ...