The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will hold a wide range of events Wednesday to celebrate the 573rd Hangeul Day in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul. Hangeul is the writing system for the Korean ...

Sejong City transforms into festival grounds — part marathon, part marketplace, part historical performance SEJONG -- On Thursday, the streets and parks of Sejong City filled with runners, ...

Korean words appear on a computer screen as fingers run across the stenotype. An explanation from the curator fills the screen through the stenographer's fingers. This is part of a new exhibit at the ...

The National Hangeul Museum, which exhibits artifacts and artwork related to hangeul, the Korean alphabet, opened in Yongsan next to the National Museum of Korea on “Hangeul Day” ― Oct. 9. Hangeul Day ...

Contrary to the media hype, the Cia Cia tribe, a group of 70,000 on the remote Indonesian island of Bau-bau, has neither received central government approval for the adoption of Hangeul as its writing ...

To mark the 579th anniversary of Hangeul Day, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will host a variety of Hangeul cultural events across the country throughout October 2025. These events will ...

“Hangeul’s greatest quality is that – at its core – there lies the wish to serve the people,” wrote President Moon Jae-in on his Facebook profile in a message to celebrate this year’s Hangeul Day on ...

The 500-year-old letter was discovered in May of last year while Na’s descendents were moving some of their ancestors’ tombs to a new location. The National Archive of Korea announced on May 20 that ...

Jennie Kim (stage name Jennie, 29) from the group BLACKPINK unveiled a new Hangeul font created to promote the beauty of Hangeul on Hangeul Day. On the 9th, her agency OA Entertainment announced that ...