Today (9 October 2015) is 한글날 (‘Hangeul Nal’/Hangeul Proclamation Day) commemorating King Sejong’s promulgation of Korea’s native writing system. The Google Doodle here looks pretty cool.
If the link doesn’t work for you, try the following but replacing the asterisk with a period:
wwwgoogleco*kr
Wow! I like it! I need to check google more often.
I learned basic Korean at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey, California. I really liked the writing system, the han-gul, as it is phonetic, one sound, one letter. I have forgotten most of the Korean I learned, from lack of chance to use it. But when I see it spelled out I can still say the words I see.
The hard part was learning to pronounce sounds not really used in English. And when han-gul is used to try and spell English words, it doesn’t always have letters for sounds we English speakers use, but they don’t.
Here is a direct link: