Thank you, King Sejong! 😁🙏

#korea #koreanculture #koreanlanguage

[Mykoreandic]

October 9th is Hangul day in Korea. And it's a national holiday 🥰

[jemajoy]

This is why I love King Sejong. He felt the pain of people and took that extra mile to liberate his people by creating a easy alphabet. Only a true king do such a good deed. Thank you very much King Sejong ❤🙏
Happy Hangul Day everyone!

[wiwewawowu]

the fact that king sejong actually cared about the literacy of his people is amazing for his time

[prashilk]

"Fine, I'll do it myself."
-King Sejong, 1443

[kayoss]

It’s considered linguistically to be one of the most beautiful alphabets as the characters also depict the mouth and tongue positioning to create the sounds made. Truly a gift to Koreans and the world.
“The king’s letters” is a great k drama depicting this development.

[wilshire]

I’m not even Korean and I found this so damn beautiful! 🥲

[Joojoobeans]

Fun fact: the rich people were very against making the Korean alphabet because that meant the poor could read and get an education. The rich profited off the poor using their labor and more. They did not want that and were against it. but Sejong was like "IM GOING TO MAKE THIS FOR THE PEOPLE" and there we have it! haha

[plmdea]

King Sejong helped the Korean people who weren’t in high social status to be literate because only the rich could learn. And it would only be the chinese characters from early on. Then he made it so every children and adult could be able to read and write! Such compassion as a great king!

[writtenwisely]

Legend has it that Sejong was buried in that sweet Adidas gear. Truly a man ahead of his time...

[moonie]

Meanwhile japan: needs to memorize the katakana and hiragana and kanji 💀

[refiloedimakatso]

My respect goes to King Sejong. I know how to say Oppa thanks to him😊😊

[perotekku]

I have zero knowledge of Korean history, but I love seeing people proud of their culture.

Thank you, King.

[spitonash]

and as a non-korean but avid language enjoyer, i can vouch that he made one of the most effective and easy-to-use alphabets i've ever seen, what an icon! hangul is truly a masterpiece in itself

[veena]

King Sejong be like: *I'm bout to end this language's whole career*

[walkerbraswell]

As someone learning Korean as a second language King Sejong is my hero

[kanaramir]

I'm not even Korean but I'm proud of him rn

[justwhatido]

me who’s learning korean and chinese at the same time: 👁️👄👁️

[TriedNotHate]

This is the most unique, heroic act from a king. My respect for King Sejong!

[Proteus-zbqv]

As a Chinese person who really likes languages in general, I was really impressed once I learned how Hangul works. It's phonetic, consistent, simple and really efficient as an alphabet.

[shadyjerry]

As a Chinese, I approved cause Mandarin is a pretty hard language when it comes to writing