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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