Why Hangul Feels “Uncomfortable” in the World of 0s and 1s | Funifytools
Today is October 9 — Hangul Day.
English is like stacking ready-made Lego blocks.Hangul is like building each Lego piece first, then putting it together.
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Hangul is a logical and scientific writing system, but computers process it inefficiently because they only understand 0s and 1s.
English fits in 1 byte per character, while Hangul needs 2–3 bytes due to its combinational consonant–vowel structure.
This makes font design, rendering, and coding with Hangul more complex compared to English.
The issue isn’t Hangul itself but the English-centered computer architecture and encoding standards.
In the AI era, future developers could create “Hangul-friendly” systems — a true Digital Sejong Project where computers finally understand Hangul natively.
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