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제목 Hangul is the modern name for “Hunminjeonghum.”

 

 

 

The unique characters of the Korean language were

 

established in 1443, twenty five years after the inauguration of King Sejong, and

 

published in 1446.

 

Hangul is the modern name for “Hunminjeonghum.”

 

“Hunminjeonghum” refers to characters used to educate

 

citizens and it has diverse names such as Eonmun,

 

Eonsuh, Banjeol, Amkeul, Ahaetgul, Gagyagul, Guksuh,

 

Gukmun and Chosungul. Eonmun means demeaning

 

characters using low-class words, so it was widely used as

 

a nickname for Hangul, originally considered lower class

 

compared with Chinese characters. However, in the

 

modernization process, those diverse names were

 

integrated into Hangul with heightened awareness by the

 

general public.

 

Hangul has been evaluated as the most scientific

 

character system in its uniqueness and efficiency of

 

symbol combinations. lt is easy to distinguish vowels from

 

consonants.

 

Specifically, vowels represent the location of the lips and

 

tongue.

 

Hangul, the most outstanding of the many cultural and

 

practical achievements of Korea’s 15th century “Confucian

 

humanist“ monarch, King Sejong the Great, was invented

 

by a committee of scholars under direct royal supervision.

 

The phonetic alphabet, a system still in use today, has

 

given Korea one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

 

Before Sejong’s time, Korea, like many Asian countries

 

within the sphere of China’s cultural influence had usad

 

complex Asian ideographs. Sejong’s experts devised a

 

simple phoneticsystem of 26 letters that accurately

 

represented all the vowels and consonants of Korean.

 

Though the system was not widely adopted until the 20th

 

century, today it is universally used, with foreign

 

ideographs used only for proper names and abstract

 

concepts. King Sejong’s 500-year-old inventuon continues

 

to benefit Koreans today. lt is the legcy of a truly

 

enlightened ruler.

 

 

 

Artist : hyelim,jang

 

Title- King Sejong's Greastest Legacy

 

Material-Oil on Canvas

 

Size- Width 53cm,Length 41cm

 

Period- 1443s