Korean Literature in Translation – CHAPTER FOUR: IT ALL CHANGES! THE CREATION OF HANGUL
Chapters 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ 5 / Perhaps the most important advancement for Korean literature in the Middle Ages was the development of a Korean alphabet, or Hangul (most often rendered as “Hangul” in English, but technically Romanized as is done here)l. Chinese had historically been the language of the literati, but in order for a real…