Anthropology

Korean writing system which is also popularly called hangul writing system is one of the native alphabet of Korean language.
The history of writing in Korea can be traced back to the time of Hanja form of writing which is being considered as the oldest form of writing in Korea.
This initial form of writing was used to represent original Korean meaning or simply to represent sounds.
Considering this gap in literacy, king Sejong on of the monarch of the Yi Dynasty about 1440 when a new method of writing was devised for the Koreans not minding their social class .
This was achieved by the commissioning of an academy known as the Royal Academy in order to create a unique, simple and easily learnable phonetic alphabet (Cynthia, 1999).
It all started with 28 characters but with time reduced to 24 characters as a result of dropping of three consonants and one vowel. since the formed consonants are usually combined with vowels to form a single sound, the modern Korean alphabet is now made up of 40 characters (which are 14 consonants, 5 double consonants, 10 vowels and 11 double vowels) (Cynthia, 1999).