# Today's Korean Holiday Marked by Cool Google Doodle

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 8, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-korean-holiday-marked-by-cool-google-doodle/733969 "2015-10-08T23:24:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-korean-holiday-marked-by-cool-google-doodle/733969/1 "2015-10-08T23:24:40Z")

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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](https://www.google.co.kr/) looks pretty cool.

If the link doesn’t work for you, try the following but replacing the asterisk with a period:

www_google_co\*kr

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**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-korean-holiday-marked-by-cool-google-doodle/733969/2 "2015-10-08T23:39:36Z")

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Wow! I like it! I need to check google more often.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-korean-holiday-marked-by-cool-google-doodle/733969/3 "2015-10-09T02:22:51Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-korean-holiday-marked-by-cool-google-doodle/733969/4 "2015-10-14T07:59:03Z")

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Here is a direct link:

> **[Hangul Proclamation Day 2015](https://www.google.com/doodles/hangul-proclamation-day-2015)**
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> Hangul Proclamation Day 2015 #GoogleDoodle