An alphabet with 24 letters overall, Hangul is composed of 14 consonants ... with an explicit link between a letter's iconography and pronunciation as a functional writing system.

The Korean alphabet is better than yours. Meet the king who invented it and watch him work his linguistic magic in this ...

According to the McCune-Reischauer (MR) system, the Korean alphabet was spelled out ... Not only the spelling corrupted to hangul but also its pronunciation [han-gl] has corrupted to [hahng ...

Today, October 9, is Hangul Day, possibly the only holiday devoted to celebrating a writing system in the world! The holiday commememorates the invention of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, in 1446. Until ...

And although Hangul's elements are phonemic like the letters in an alphabet, they are grouped into characters representing a whole syllable, which is why it is often called a "syllabary" rather ...

Every desk had a paper nameplate on it with the occupant’s name written in the Korean alphabet, called Hangul. Soon, the students were following their instructor’s lead and etching the ...

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 ...