SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. city of Milpitas in California held its 10th annual celebration of Korean Alphabet Day. The Korean Education Center in San Francisco on Sunday (local time) celebrated the 579th anniversary of the creation of the Korean alphabet, called “hangeul,” with support from Milpitas and the city library. Milpitas [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — An art foundation said Thursday it is pushing to create commercial digital tokens of “Hunminjeongeum,” an official manuscript describing the principles of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, and details on its letters and sounds. The Kansong Art and Culture Foundation, which owns the Haerye edition of the historic document, said [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition by the National Hangeul Museum kicked off its five-month run Monday to explore the Korean alphabet’s potential as a design motif. The exhibition, “Transformations: Experiments in Hangeul Design,” brought together some 300 creative visual works by 22 Korean designers and design teams. They include graphic design, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A fifth-grade class’s list of suggestions on eliminating vulgarity and typos from the country’s most popular online messaging app Kakao Talk was acknowledged by company CEO Lim Ji-hoon, who said that the ideas are being considered. Last month, Lee Ki-tae and his class of fifth-graders at Wonho Elementary in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Hangul, the Korean alphabet featuring 24 consonant and vowel letters, has been disseminated to foreign countries, driven by its rising international awareness, and its greater incorporation into various fields including art and fashion, increasingly proving its cultural excellence both at home and abroad. The nation’s banking industry also began to [...]