... in Korea."1 It is thus the scope of this essay to analyse in detail King Sejong's numerous achievements in order of importance for the development of early Choson culture. The creation of a Korean indigenous alphabet system can be seen as being perhaps the most prominent amongst King Sejong's cultural accomplishments. Indeed, up until then there was a great difficulty in expressing thoughts in written language. There were three methods for this purpose: the ancient letters, "Idu", and "T'o". Neither of these was practical and the latter two methods in particular "borrowed the Chinese ideographs without a uniform method"2 thus preventing people from writing or expressing themselves freely. The invention of "Han-gul", originally called Hunmin-chong-um (Correct pronunciation of letters for teaching people), solved this problem. By establishing 28 letters of which 11 vowels and 17 consonants, it greatly simplified writing and rendered it possible for greater part of the population ...

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