How does Korean Language works?
Brief information about Hanja and Hangul symbols

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The Korean language uses two different characters system. Though, the modern Korean text is mostly written in Hangul.

Hanja

Hanja characters refers to those characters were borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Since Hanja did not have a major reform in Korean's culture, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese characters. There are only some hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean.
Hanja are ideograms, which mean that each character has its own meaning and corresponds to a word. By combining characters, more words can be created. This form of characters was used more often in older generation. Therefore, we usually suggest our clients that if being able to recognized a phrase/word as in Korean, it would be best to go with Hangul characters to avoid the confusing whether if it is meant to be Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Hangul

In the 15th century a national writing system was developed by Sejong the Great, nowadays called Hangul. Hangul became the official writing system for the Korean in the mid-1440. Because of the influence of Confucianism and of Chinese culture, Hangul was not widely used by scholars or Koreans of the upper classes until after 1945.Nowaday, hangul is widely used as the main character system. Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language.

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