Learning Basic Korean

History of Hangul

Until the 15th century, Korean was written using chinese characters. Since learning this several complicated characters only those with lots of time and money for education could do it,  just a tiny number of aristocrats were able to read and write the chinese characters.

In 1446, the fourth king of the Joseon Dinasty, Sejong (세종) the great, with the sholars of the royal academy Yip jion yon (집현전), they did and published the Jun min yong um (훈민정음), that described a new alphabet that was specially desinged to be easy to lear, and now a days is kwono as hangul (한글). 

This alphabets has 10 basic vowels and 14 basic consonants, wich can be change to do many groups of syllables. It`s very simple and easy to learn. October 9th will be held Hangul`s day.