Choe Sejin

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Choe Sejin (1473-1542) was a Korean linguist, educator, and a proponent of hangul during the Joseon Dynasty. He is of the Goesan Choe clan and courtesy name was Gongseo Choe devised the modern South Korean order of the hangul letters, and assigned names to the letters. His most famous book on hangul is the Hunmong Jahoe "Collection of Characters for Training the Unenlightened (Kids)," 1527). Choe was an official interpreter in the Korean embassies in Beijing, and so he also documented colloquial northern Chinese languages (Haner).