Hangul

Hangul is the writing system of Korean.

It was created in the 15th century and is famous for its logical design.

Overview

Modern Hangul is usually described as having 24 basic letters: 14 consonants and 10 vowels.

Instead of being written one after another like Latin letters, Hangul letters are grouped into square syllable blocks.

Hangul was developed under King Sejong in 1443 and published in 1446.

It was designed to make literacy more accessible.

The shapes of Hangul consonants are connected to how sounds are formed in the mouth.

This makes Hangul one of the most systematic writing systems in the world.

Beginners often learn individual letters first, but real Korean writing is read as syllable blocks such as 한, 글, 가, 나.

So the next step after learning letters is learning how they combine.