Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Forgotten Hanja

Before, Korea mixed both Hanguel (Korean alphabetical letters) with Hanja (Chinese Characters).  Later the Korean government removed Hanja from usage for various, probably nationalistic bent, reasons.  I always chose to learn the Hanja, as it helps me learn extra meaning to the words, and how it relates to both Japanese and Chinese.


Where I live, I signed a contract with the elderly owner, and I was so excited that he did the contract in traditional old style true Korean culture, with mix-script (that is both Hanja and Hanguel).  This is the contract he wrote out.

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