korean alphabet.

I've always been intrigued by the look of Korean characters. They have a very structured look that is so beautiful and graceful.

So, apparently in 1446 the Korean monarch, Sejong decided to stop using the Chinese characters for their written language in hopes of making a language that would be within the grasp of ordinary people. There are 14 consonants and 10 vowels.

The consonants are grouped based on the shape the mouth is when the sound is made (5 groups). And the characters are abstract depictions of the shape the mouth is formed. I guess there are some letters in our language that do that, but do have every letter coded in that way is very smart.

The vowels are dots situated with horizontal or vertical lines.

I thought that was SO cool.