Author : Diamond Sutra Recitation Group
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Thoughts and legacies of King Sejong, the most enlightened ruler in five thousand years of Korean history.
Author : Carol Kim
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0807541621
A Junior Library Guild Selection March 2022 How do you create a new alphabet? In 15th-century Korea, King Sejong was distressed. The complicated Chinese characters used for reading and writing meant only rich, educated people could read—and that was just the way they wanted it. But King Sejong thought all Koreans should be able to read and write, so he worked in secret for years to create a new Korean alphabet. King Sejong's strong leadership and determination to bring equality to his country make his 600-year-old story as relevant as ever.
Author : Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This book is about Korea's cultural hero, King Sejong (r. 1418-1450), the inventor of the Korean alphabet. Written by internationally known scholars, it contains 14 chapters, with numerous color plates & illustrations. King Sejong is best known & loved by the Korean people for his invention of the Korean alphabet, usually considered the most scientific writing system the world has ever known. It was an extraordinary intellectual achievement but it was also an act of compassion. Sejong created the alphabet as an expression of love for his people & as part of an ideal theory of governance. For these same reasons, Sejong also ordered astronomical instruments & rain gauges assembled, rituals & music reformed, & movable metal type created. Sejong wanted his subjects to understand the natural world so they could interact efficiently, appropriately, & harmoniously with their environment. Sejong took the throne in the Choson dynasty's third decade & put it on such a strong foundation that it lasted for over five centuries, a remarkable record not just in East Asia but in world history. Through this concise & informative reader, the English-speaking public will understand why the very name Sejong evokes an image of human perfection in Koreans' minds. To order: call (202) 994-7107, FAX (202) 994-1512, or write: Young-Key Kim-Renaud, E. Asian Lang. & Lit. Dept., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC 20052.
Author : Robert Koehler et al.
Publisher : Seoul Selection
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1624120326
Writing is a cornerstone of civilization, a crucial invention that better allows peoples to accumulate and pass down knowledge and preserve cultures. There are currently some 6,909 living languages in the world, yet only a minority of these are written, and of these just a handful have their own unique writing systems. Hangeul, the indigenous writing system of Korea, is one of them. Promulgated in 1446, Hangeul is an ingenious system that utilizes forward-thinking and scientific linguistic theories and principles of Korean traditional culture to perfectly express the sounds of the Korean language. Invented by the brilliant King Sejong the Great, the alphabet has been widely lauded by scholars the world over for its advanced phonetic system and ease of use.
Author :
Publisher : 생각의나무
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Korean language
ISBN : 9788984988767
Author : Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
A collection of ten essays which cover topics such as: arguments for King Sejong's personal creation of the script; the Asian and domestic linguistic and socio-cultural background to its creation; the principles under which each symbol was created; and the structure of phonological units.
Author : Teun Koetsier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400741324
This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). These proceedings cover recent research concerning all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present and its historiography: machines, mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics, concepts and theories, design methods, collections of methods, collections of models, institutions and biographies.
Author : Onrie Kompan
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 9781467510240
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Author : Todd A. Henry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520293150
Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study written in English about Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial expositions, and sanitation campaigns, Todd A. Henry offers a transnational account that treats the city’s public spaces as "contact zones," showing how residents negotiated pressures to become loyal, industrious, and hygienic subjects of the Japanese empire. Unlike previous, top-down analyses, this ethnographic history investigates modalities of Japanese rule as experienced from below. Although the colonial state set ambitious goals for the integration of Koreans, Japanese settler elites and lower-class expatriates shaped the speed and direction of assimilation by bending government initiatives to their own interests and identities. Meanwhile, Korean men and women of different classes and generations rearticulated the terms and degree of their incorporation into a multiethnic polity. Assimilating Seoul captures these fascinating responses to an empire that used the lure of empowerment to disguise the reality of alienation.
Author : Carol J. Farley
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
With the help of a scholar and a young gardener, the wise king of Korea introduces an alphabet that will enable his people to read and write in their own language. Based on Korean legends.
