How Was Hangul Invented?

How Was Hangul Invented?

Until 1446, Koreans had no writing system of their own. The educated elite wrote in hanja, classical Chinese characters, to record the meaning — but not the sound — of Korean speech. Then King Sejong introduced Hangul, a newly invented alphabet of 28 characters, saying: “a wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days”