Hangul Day
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Hangul Day, called Hangeul Day in South Korea, and Chosŏn'gŭl Day in North Korea, is a holiday celebrating the creation or promulgation of the native Korean alphabet, also called Hangul. The holiday i
Hunminjeongeum, the 1446 text that introduced Hangul
Hunminjeongeum
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Hunminjeongeum is a 1446 work that formally introduced the first native Korean alphabet. That alphabet was originally also called "Hunminjeongeum", although it is now widely called "Hangul" or "Chosŏn
Hangul Day
…holiday was established in 1926 by the Korean Language Society. Its date was set to mark the Korean calendar anniversary of the 1446 publication of the Hunminjeongeum, the text used to introduce Hangul. However, October 9 is only a guess at when Hangul was first published; the actual date is not known with confidence…
The first page of the Eonhae edition, from a 1568 reprint