>Your king didn't create the greatest written language of all time
Sucks to be you guys
>>40929
>It's so great the masses need a simplified version of it to have any hope of writing for a living
>>40964
You're thinking of the Chinese, anon.
The man in OP knew Chinese characters were shit.
>>40964
It's Korean you idjit.
>>40929
>ching chong chinaman and the greatest language of all time
>>40929
>wanting dirty commoners to read
Even a dirty foreigner like me could learn to sound out korean.
>>42488
Oh, I know. I did it. It's great, I don't know why other cultures didn't do a similar thing.
>>40975
Traditional Chinese is patrician-tier and kept the plebs illiterate. Korean is for the unwashed masses.
>>42488
That was the point. Hangul alphabet was created to be learned in one day.
>>42630
That's a bad thing, you idiot. You want to be able to convey the most information to the most people possible. Keeping people from learning shit was a big reason why everything sucked for most of humanity's existence.
>>42794
>China, Japan, Korea had been using Trad Chinese characters for millenia.
>China, Japan have no problems using it for popular instruction. Besides its good for bureaucracy (specially in Multilingual China).
>Both Edo Japan and China ran schools based on teaching it
>Korea has problems with it
Why is Korea such a middle child of East Asia t-b-h
>>42630
That was one of the many reasons that China became stagnant and let the european states take the lead.
