![]() ![]() Why? Well, when I got into its grammar, I was surprised by how complicated it is. Little did I know, I was going to unexpectedly give up studying this language. I even made flashcards to enhance my vocabularies, watched a lot of tutorials on YouTube, surfed many websites on the Internet, and proceeds to watch Korean series. These are among the facts that I knew while I became deeply interested in Korea’s traditions, history, and cultures. Also, the shapes of the letters in 한글 was based on the surroundings and how you say it. Meaning to say, it was created by the King for the purpose of literacy. Because before, many Koreans are illiterate due to their very complex Chinese-based writing system called Hanja (漢字) which is difficult to understand. ![]() It is said that “한글”(han-geul) was created in order for people with little to no education could learn how to read and write. Such as it wasn’t the writing system of Korea before and how it only existed at about 578 years ago during King Sejong’s reign. In the middle of my journey learning the said language, I began to encounter a lot of interesting facts about it.
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