The “2024 Hangeul Week” will kick off on Oct. 4 with a series of events to promote the use of Korean and the Korean alphabet, known as Hangeul. This week-long event, which celebrates the 578th ...

Early Korean calligraphy was exclusively in Hanja, or the Chinese-based logography first used to write the Korean language. Today many calligraphers, particularly in South Korea, are experimenting ...

Civilizations are judged by the quality of historical knowledge they document and leave behind. For about 3,000 years, “seoye,” the art of calligraphy, has been a visible documentation of East ...

More than half of South Koreans think that not knowing Hanja (Chinese characters) has made life uncomfortable, according to a recent Korean Gallup Opinion Poll on Hangul and Hanja. The poll, to ...