The invention of Hangeul was not only Sejong’s greatest achievement, it was a personal project he had to carry out in secret himself; one of the very, very few moments in which Sejong acted like his father (who was a very effective ruler but also infamous for being ruthless to any political opposition) was when court officials threatened to destroy his life’s work after he announced the new language he’d invented (because the new language would make a lot more people literate, taking away much of the power from the scholarly elite and empowering the wider public-which was exactly what Sejong wanted). There was a moment where everyone assumed the king would go on a bloody purge like his father did to his enemies; it turned out that things only went as far as one prominent official being fired.
I'm Jamaican and I only watch the old Korean movies,they are the best movies without any doubt ..Id love to know more about the Nokdu Rebels if possible for future .Thank you so much for these videos
Moi aussi, d'ailleurs je trouve que les acteurs, actrices, que soient coréen, chinois, japonais, etc., etc., se ressemblent tous, il y à trop des opérations , et ils perdent peu à peu leurs atouts, leurs personnalités, leurs beauté naturels, mon avis personnel , ont va dans un monde ont peut dire robotisée, tous pareils....
What impresses me the most about the invention of Hangul is that Sejong had no ulterior motive for inventing it beyond making it easier for anyone to learn how to read. In another timeline, Korea could have gone on just like China and Japan, continuing to use Chinese characters in everyday writing. While China and Japan both have high literacy rates with their logographic writing systems, their citizens have to spend each year from grade 1-12 studying hundreds of characters just to read their language at a competent level. Meanwhile, a Korean kindergartener will have already learned everything she needs to read text in her language because it was designed to be as easy as possible to use.
Anyone can learn to read and write Korean (and hiragana & katakana japanese) the moment you hand them an english-korean consonant and vowel conversion graph. No stupid rules like english, no memorisation like Chinese. What you see is what you get. Its still weird why Japanese still uses Chinese characters while Korean phased them out 80 years ago.
Wow... all the information you express in the videos is absolutely beautiful. I love all the connections, everyday examples and analogies you make for a broad understanding of Korean history. I´m truly delighted with everything I´m learning about the various processes and characters that transformed the history of the Korean people. I´m passionate about knowledge, arts and history, so this type of information is like gold for me. I try very hard to learn deeply about what I am interested in knowing because I believe that is the basis of human understanding. I have always loved Asian cultures, it fascinates me to see how their customs, their honorability and that beautiful delicacy that characterizes them persist. You have put a lot of effort into telling the story of beautiful Korea in a dynamic and passionate way. !Thank you; for your videos! I hope you continue to make more of this content and it would be very interesting to know if there are historical books or literary postulates that you can recommend to me.
Thanks a lot ^^ A good straight to the point history book that I like is “Korean History in Maps - From prehistory to the twenty-first century” edited by Michael D. Shin. It provides a great overall look at Korean History; a starting point let’s say.
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I am so much grateful for this because it will be a big help specially for me as a student who currently have an old korean language. ❤
7:00 it’s so low that the allegedly “wisest of the wise” were scared that the lower class would see through their bs and therefore opposed their learning of hangeul.
I came across your channel while looking for videos about 발해 (because of the new Netflix show). I am glad that I found your website. I really like videos like this!
Just watching movie forbidden dream the history of this big heart king 'Yi Do'.. very intelligent & love to explore new knowledge that will give benefits to their people at that time also world nowdays.. im so touching the king relationship with his engineer that come from lower class people that time they're slave but king treat him very well by share the mutual interest & dream them be working together to fulfill the dream.. his very down to earth & definitely the greatest king in that era..
As everyone else is saying thank you for making this, how well written and explained. Just heard of this from some video online and had to hear more about him and this fantastic set of letters. Honestly probably now one of my new favorite humans to ever exist. +1 subscriber from me. I cannot stress how cool this is, and how well you're telling his story. Much love
Korean and Hmong are brothers by law because of Emperor Chiyou. Chiyou had three wives: One from Hmong, one from Korean, and one from Han Chinese. I am happy to see South Korea is growing. They are my baby brother from another mother.
No. I hear this from a lot of over confident Indians who think India owns the world. No. They mean different and and they sound different. There is practically no connection between Korean and Indian. Why do you think scholars have difficulties trying to tie Korean and Japanese to another language? Both languages are considered to be independent. Some say they are Altaic but at the same time, soke like Alexander Vovin, says no. Our language has nothing to do with Indian. No one says so except Indians.
They're both great ^^ There would not be any Korean nation as we know it if it wasn't for Gwanggaeto. Koreans would not have their own distinct identity if it wasn't for Sejong and Hangul.
@ Carl alarcos a king who was deposed for a not so good reason was obviously not the best. And strangely coming that from phii with no recorded complex history its a shame really .
I’m sorry but it is widely accepted among scholars that King Sejong, a proficient linguist, secretly created Hangul, and a few scholars later supported him in developing explanatory materials to introduce it to the people.
@@킴츕스 I guess my comment was a bit flippant. King Sejong was a great king and if he didn't push hard against the scholars who were against Hangul, we would be stuck having to memorize thousands of characters just to read a newspaper, and the economic miracle of the 70's would have happened later. Forcing a change against a culture that writes everything down is quite an achievement.
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The invention of Hangeul was not only Sejong’s greatest achievement, it was a personal project he had to carry out in secret himself; one of the very, very few moments in which Sejong acted like his father (who was a very effective ruler but also infamous for being ruthless to any political opposition) was when court officials threatened to destroy his life’s work after he announced the new language he’d invented (because the new language would make a lot more people literate, taking away much of the power from the scholarly elite and empowering the wider public-which was exactly what Sejong wanted). There was a moment where everyone assumed the king would go on a bloody purge like his father did to his enemies; it turned out that things only went as far as one prominent official being fired.
Not language, the letters.
Thank you for making this video:)
King Sejong is one of the greatest king in Korea.
I'm Jamaican and I only watch the old Korean movies,they are the best movies without any doubt ..Id love to know more about the Nokdu Rebels if possible for future .Thank you so much for these videos
Thank you for watching!
Same here...they are so good and rich history.Just finished watching Jang Yonshil the slave boy who built the celestial globe..
@@loonytricky , where is the explanation of Manchu soldiers leaded by Hong Taiji's attack that could conquer Joseon ???
Moi aussi, d'ailleurs je trouve que les acteurs, actrices, que soient coréen, chinois, japonais, etc., etc., se ressemblent tous, il y à trop des opérations , et ils perdent peu à peu leurs atouts, leurs personnalités, leurs beauté naturels, mon avis personnel , ont va dans un monde ont peut dire robotisée, tous pareils....
@@juliafried4756 C’est plus facile de créer un film qui ne dure que deux heures 😎 ... Regardez le Prince Clown
A ruler with knowledge and talents with hiring the best and most talented people regardless of class.
Thank you so much for this video it really a big help for us students who are currently taking a korean language.
What impresses me the most about the invention of Hangul is that Sejong had no ulterior motive for inventing it beyond making it easier for anyone to learn how to read.
In another timeline, Korea could have gone on just like China and Japan, continuing to use Chinese characters in everyday writing. While China and Japan both have high literacy rates with their logographic writing systems, their citizens have to spend each year from grade 1-12 studying hundreds of characters just to read their language at a competent level.
Meanwhile, a Korean kindergartener will have already learned everything she needs to read text in her language because it was designed to be as easy as possible to use.
Agree with every point ^^
Anyone can learn to read and write Korean (and hiragana & katakana japanese) the moment you hand them an english-korean consonant and vowel conversion graph. No stupid rules like english, no memorisation like Chinese. What you see is what you get. Its still weird why Japanese still uses Chinese characters while Korean phased them out 80 years ago.
Wow... all the information you express in the videos is absolutely beautiful. I love all the connections, everyday examples and analogies you make for a broad understanding of Korean history. I´m truly delighted with everything I´m learning about the various processes and characters that transformed the history of the Korean people. I´m passionate about knowledge, arts and history, so this type of information is like gold for me. I try very hard to learn deeply about what I am interested in knowing because I believe that is the basis of human understanding.
I have always loved Asian cultures, it fascinates me to see how their customs, their honorability and that beautiful delicacy that characterizes them persist. You have put a lot of effort into telling the story of beautiful Korea in a dynamic and passionate way.
!Thank you; for your videos! I hope you continue to make more of this content and it would be very interesting to know if there are historical books or literary postulates that you can recommend to me.
Thanks a lot ^^ A good straight to the point history book that I like is “Korean History in Maps - From prehistory to the twenty-first century” edited by Michael D. Shin. It provides a great overall look at Korean History; a starting point let’s say.
@@loonytricky Oh, 🙏 thank you very much for your response and for the bibliographic recommendation.
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I am so much grateful for this because it will be a big help specially for me as a student who currently have an old korean language. ❤
Brilliant writing system! Respect from an American for this giant and inspired advancement in communication.
Never forget for the benefit of all humanity we are God's people, Thank Dangun! Never forget our history and our culture which makes us!
Thank You for this vid...Look forward to learn more about Sejong.
That's why he's the GOAT.
7:00 it’s so low that the allegedly “wisest of the wise” were scared that the lower class would see through their bs and therefore opposed their learning of hangeul.
I came across your channel while looking for videos about 발해 (because of the new Netflix show). I am glad that I found your website. I really like videos like this!
Glad you enjoy it!
I really enjoyed watching this 😁😁 Thankyou
Just watching movie forbidden dream the history of this big heart king 'Yi Do'.. very intelligent & love to explore new knowledge that will give benefits to their people at that time also world nowdays.. im so touching the king relationship with his engineer that come from lower class people that time they're slave but king treat him very well by share the mutual interest & dream them be working together to fulfill the dream.. his very down to earth & definitely the greatest king in that era..
Beautiful video to keep learning about korean language ❤
Thank you! 😃
Thank you
So I have 10 days to learn Hangul. Good to know! 😜 I wonder why those four letters are no longer in use and what sounds did they represent?
F 발음이랑 v 발음인데..
쓰기 귀찮아서 !
As everyone else is saying thank you for making this, how well written and explained.
Just heard of this from some video online and had to hear more about him and this fantastic set of letters. Honestly probably now one of my new favorite humans to ever exist.
+1 subscriber from me. I cannot stress how cool this is, and how well you're telling his story. Much love
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching ^^
The Great King Sejong, the Korean tv show.
King Sejong The G.O.A.T.
Nice and amazing the Korean historical❤️❤️
Le plus grand Roi de Corée ! ❤
Korean and Hmong are brothers by law because of Emperor Chiyou. Chiyou had three wives: One from Hmong, one from Korean, and one from Han Chinese.
I am happy to see South Korea is growing. They are my baby brother from another mother.
thanks more please
Korean Language is really different from my subject, great history. I learned easily from my teacher.
(BSOA 2B)
Thank you for making this video! I really enjoy it and I learned a lot. This video helps me to study korean languge. ❤️
Lianza, Vanessa Mae BSOA-2B
Hangeul as the world's official language!
What are the sounds of the extinct hangul letters
There are too many… a quick wikipedia search can help you for this
The period of yeonsangun was complete chaos, making corruption rampant in Joseon.
thanks, his late majesty, Sejong, you have made the most simplest alphabet in the world, even a tribal Language can adopt it
One of the ONLY 2 KINGS that had a TITLE (TAEWANG or THE GREAT..
1.THE GREAT KING GWANGGAETO.
2.THE GREAT KING SEJONG.
What a great king he was.
Who is the first king of Korea?
Please tell me ?it really important to me.
Well, the founder of Joseon is Taejo (Yi Seong-gye)…
@@loonytricky 감사합니다🙌
Is ti based on Sanskrit as the King's Letters alludes to?
No. I hear this from a lot of over confident Indians who think India owns the world.
No. They mean different and and they sound different. There is practically no connection between Korean and Indian.
Why do you think scholars have difficulties trying to tie Korean and Japanese to another language? Both languages are considered to be independent. Some say they are Altaic but at the same time, soke like Alexander Vovin, says no.
Our language has nothing to do with Indian. No one says so except Indians.
I don't think Sanskrit has any connection with Korean but script does have influence of Buddhist monks in the emperor's court@@Hayan_Yeou
Sigh! The good old days when Korea was one.
Life was horrible back in those days. WTF are you smoking hahahaha
proud to be his direct bloodline !
king gwanggaeto the great is the best king than him if you ask me
They're both great ^^ There would not be any Korean nation as we know it if it wasn't for Gwanggaeto. Koreans would not have their own distinct identity if it wasn't for Sejong and Hangul.
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Carl alarcos a king who was deposed for a not so good reason was obviously not the best. And strangely coming that from phii with no recorded complex history its a shame really .
He did not invent Hangul, he had three scholars invent it, but he paid for it, so I guess he owns it. One of the three scholars was my ancestor.
I’m sorry but it is widely accepted among scholars that King Sejong, a proficient linguist, secretly created Hangul, and a few scholars later supported him in developing explanatory materials to introduce it to the people.
보노보노 "헛소리 하지마 임마"
@@킴츕스 I guess my comment was a bit flippant. King Sejong was a great king and if he didn't push hard against the scholars who were against Hangul, we would be stuck having to memorize thousands of characters just to read a newspaper, and the economic miracle of the 70's would have happened later. Forcing a change against a culture that writes everything down is quite an achievement.