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| Korea.net Honorary Reporter Bardise Muhammad uses the Hangeul alphabet to brand the faces of stuffed toys. |
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Bardise Muhammad
Photos = Bardise Muhammad
Long ago, the Korean people used to write using Chinese characters, called Hanja (한자) inwards Korean. They didn’t convey their ain alphabet. However, King Sejong the Great (세종대왕) (1397-1450), the 4th Joseon king, wanted the Korean people to convey their ain writing organization together with thence that they would endure able to limited their thoughts to a greater extent than easily. Since they didn’t verbalise ancient Chinese, together with spoke Korean, using the traditional Chinese characters wasn’t rattling convenient. Also, he wanted to assistance everyone who came from the lower classes together with who didn't convey the risk to larn Hanja. The virile soul monarch wanted to assistance them to read together with to write to a greater extent than easily together with to have the proper teaching they deserved.
So, King Sejong had his scholars create the Korean alphabet inwards 1443, together with published the "Hunminjeongeum" (훈민정음) to innovate the newly created alphabet, together with it was officially proclaimed inwards 1446.
The cite "Hunminjeongeum" means, “the proper sounds for instructing the people.” In fact, the "Hunminjeongeum" is Korea’s National Treasure No. 70, together with was registered equally business office of UNESCO’s Memory of the World inwards Oct 1997.
Now, writing together with reading Korean became much easier, fifty-fifty for non-Koreans who are learning Korean together with didn’t grow upwards speaking the language.
As a Korean linguistic communication learner, I had to limited my beloved for the Korean alphabet inwards a exceptional way. Since the alphabet looks similar geometric shapes, I decided to usage it together with add together it to my stuffed toys equally their eyes, noses or mouths. Each missive of the alphabet adds a dissimilar facial expression. There are xiv consonants together with 10 vowels, together with thence I made xiv Hangeul toys! The letters I used are ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ together with ㅎ.
The Korean alphabet was invented to acquire inwards easier for people to larn the Korean language. That's why writing Korean inwards the Latin alphabet doesn’t brand the procedure of learning Korean whatever easier. On the contrary, it makes it quite hard equally it doesn’t serve the same usage that the Korean letters do.
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| The showtime iv letters of the Korean alphabet are ㄱ equally the eyes, ㄴ equally the eyes, ㄷ equally the oral fissure together with ㄹ equally a mouth. |
It’s worth noting that the illiteracy charge per unit of measurement inwards Korea dropped noticeably later the alphabet was proclaimed. Now, Korea is i of the move past times countries inwards the basis amongst i of the highest literacy rates. Also, to exhibit appreciation for King Sejong’s efforts together with creativity, the Korean people celebrate Hangeul Day (한글날) annually on Oct. 9, together with fifty-fifty non-Koreans acquire to celebrate this big consequence at Korean cultural centers some the world.
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| Letters from the Korean alphabet tin endure used to brand a face: the ㅁas the eyes, ㅂ equally the eyes, ㅅ equally the eyes together with mouth, andㅇas the mouth. |
Now, the cite of King Sejong tin endure found inwards many countries that are many kilometers away from Korea amongst the recent institution of many Sejong Institutes (세종 학당). These were develop past times the Korean regime amongst the usage of helping the speedily increasing issue of non-Koreans who convey a huge involvement inwards the Korean linguistic communication together with who desire to larn the language, but who reside exterior Korea. The centers assistance them to larn the linguistic communication properly without having to movement to Korea.
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| The Korean missive of the alphabet ㅈcan endure the nose, together with ㅊ tin endure the mouth. |
The Korean alphabet didn’t entirely acquire inwards easier for people to larn Korean. With its artistic look, it encouraged many calligraphy artists to start using it for their calligraphy work, along amongst the usage of traditional Chinese characters.
I believe that Hangeul tin endure used amongst anything, together with it'll acquire inwards await either artistically beautiful or fifty-fifty cute.
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| The Korean missive of the alphabet ㅋ is the nose, ㅌ is the mouth, ㅍ is the eyes together with ㅎ is the nose. |
King Sejong, give cheers y'all for creating Hangeul!
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