A fictionalized telling of how the great King Sejong of early Joseon (mid-1400s) set out to create a Korean vernacular alphabet to replace the unwieldy usage of Chinese characters used to write Korean phonetically. This system limited literacy to the educated aristocrat class. The story involves a commoner youth who helped show scholars from the Hall of Worthies that the alphabet was a gift from the gods. (Ages 5-8)
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