In the Korean language, there are some words that are pure or native Korean. Others are Sino-Korean, with origins in the Chinese language. Sino-Korean words can be represented with Hanja, characters ...

Moreover, since parents choosing a pure Korean name have increased over the years, many have dropped the generational syllables, which are mostly based on hanja. With so many changes in Korea’s ...

He is best known as the inventor of hangul, the Korean writing script that we use today. This phonetic and straightforward system broke away from the old Chinese writing characters, called hanja, and ...