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Hangul, the Korean alphabet, was promulgated in 1446 under King Sejong. The point was practical and almost radical: people should be able to write their own language without first mastering classical Chinese. The letters were designed, not slowly inherited. A script can be a public project, made so that reading is not a class.

Hangul was designed so ordinary people could read and write their own language.

Hangul · Encyclopaedia Britannica · 1446 · Factapp