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The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul

National Hangeul Museum

Yongsan · History Museum · Free

A king who invents an alphabet for the illiterate is almost unheard of. This museum is where I explain why Koreans still revere King Sejong.

A museum for a single invention: the Korean alphabet a 15th-century king designed so commoners could read. One of history's rare top-down literacy revolutions.

— Hayoon, The Historian
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