{"id":1381,"date":"2011-10-23T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2011-10-23T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:31:34","slug":"the-korean-hangul-script-as-a-global-phonetic-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/10\/23\/the-korean-hangul-script-as-a-global-phonetic-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Korean Hangul script as a global phonetic system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellodd.com\/Kr\/DD_News\/Article_View.asp?mark=35839#\">article<\/a> by Professor Sin Buyong, Director of KAIST\u2019s new \u201cHangul\u201d Engineering Institute\u201d in which he argues for the broad application of the Korean hangul script globally. Korea is starting to expand the concept of technology to include many new applications, and this concept of hangul as a universal script that can more accurately, and more simply, represent all languages is particularly striking. \u00a0What is new here is the Koreans are not merely proposing more people in the world should learn Korean, but also that they could better write their own languages using the hangul script.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sin presented in a previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellodd.com\/Kr\/DD_News\/Article_View.asp?Mark=35686\">article<\/a>\u00a0an input device employing hangul and demonstrates how hangul is better than the Roman script for inputting English. I am not sure how realistic this example is, but it does suggest a new self confidence and creativity which is most welcome.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1382\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hangul-imput.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1382\" title=\"hangul imput\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hangul-imput.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hangul-imput.jpg 640w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hangul-imput-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hangul-imput-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstration of the greater efficiency of Hangul script over Roman script for inputting English.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating article by Professor Sin Buyong, Director of KAIST\u2019s new \u201cHangul\u201d Engineering Institute\u201d in which he argues for the broad application of the Korean hangul script globally. Korea is starting to expand the concept of technology to include many new applications, and this concept of hangul as a universal script that can more accurately, &#8230; <a title=\"The Korean Hangul script as a global phonetic system\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/10\/23\/the-korean-hangul-script-as-a-global-phonetic-system\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Korean Hangul script as a global phonetic system\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1831212,49161,10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature-and-language","category-technology-and-society","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}