Writing and Printing

Hangul simplification movement

The Hangul simplification movement (Korean: 한글 간소화 파동), also called Hangul crisis, was a movement that lasted from 1949 to 1955, in which South Korean president Syngman Rhee and some members of his government pushed to reform Hangul, the native alphabet for the Korean language, to an orthography they felt was simpler. Ultimately, while orthographic reform was generally desired by the public, the specific changes proposed by the movement faced too much pushback and its supporters ceased to significantly advocate for it.

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• ▸Italic type
• ▸Delta Leporis
• ▸Block book

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