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Could You Read Korean From More Than 500 Years Ago?

Recent Blog Posts - Fri, 2026-10-09 08:12

Hangul Day on October 9 marks 580 years since the promulgation of Hunminjeongeum, the 1446 document that introduced Korea's new writing system, and 100 years since the first public commemoration of the script. Modern Korean readers can recognize the letters in early Hangul texts, but the language written with them has changed enough that reading them fluently is another matter.

The Korean I Learned Wasn’t the Korean I Heard | Into Korean

Recent Blog Posts - Fri, 2026-10-09 00:50

A lot of the Korean I learned before I went to Korea wasn’t the Korean I ended up hearing there. Not just the pronunciation and the dialect (which was completely a mystery to me), but basic grammar and words too. I share some of my frustrations with learning Korean as a beginner, and talk with a fluent Korean speaker about his experiences with the language.

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