Posts Tagged ‘Hangul Day’

It’s time for another holiday in South Korea. Tomorrow, October 9, is “Hangeul Day,” a day set aside to appreciate and honor the Korean alphabet, known as “Hangeul” or the “Great Alphabet” (han (한) means “great” or “big” and geul (글) means “script”). As strange as the holiday might seem to non-Koreans, the commemoration of Korea’s alphabet is a revered…