Hunmin chong-um means exact "The right sound to teach people", which was not only the name of new character, so called "Hunmin chong-um", but also the name of interpretation book into Chinese character written by the Chiphyonjon court scholars in September of 1446. Hunmin chong-um consists of courtesy part, comment part and introduction part. It includes backgrounds and the reason of creating Hangul, numbers of alphabet, the system & principle and the usage of it. in 1447 the courtesy part of Hunmin chong-um was translated in Hangul. This book is also called Hummin chong-um. So the first Hunmin chong-um is called the original book of Hunmin chong-um and the other one is called the translated book. Also Hunmin chong-um was acknowledged and registered as the 'Memory of the World' of Unesco in 1997.
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