Inside the palace, one can also see a western-style building, the National museum of arts, and a statue of king Sejong under whom the Korean alphabet, hangul, was invented in the 15th century. |
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Hangul characters are syllabic blocks composed of component elements called Jamo. |
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For the non-reader of Hangul, the Hangul script in each stanza represents a phonetic ideal that Romanization can reflect either better or worse but never really attain. |
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The language of the Korean people is the Korean language, which uses Hangul as its main writing system with some Hanja. |
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