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To people the 582nd twelvemonth of the Hangul (Korean alphabet) creation, Korea Culture Centre Nigeria (KCCN) took Nigerians connected a amusive and creator exploration of the letters.
Unlike Calligraphic Art, which focuses connected the aesthetic and cursive practice of words oregon letters connected paper, the participants were encouraged to travel up with immoderate Korean connection of their prime and usage images of objects reminiscent of the Hangeul characters to correspond the connection connected paper.
The workout seemed excessively elemental to present successful 40 minutes. By the clip the participants, who were predominantly Korean connection students astatine the centre, could determine connected a Korean word, fig retired what objects visually correspond the Hangul letters, and past use the graphic aesthetic and colours necessary, 40 minutes seemed excessively short.
However, the consciousness of accomplishment that comes from conceptual thinking, the ocular practice of their thoughts and the all-round camaraderie and adrenaline that comes with creating creation made the workout worthwhile. At the aforesaid time, it showed Hangul’s possibilities and flexibility.
Founded successful 1443 by King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty, the Korean alphabet was created to let each Koreans to explicit themselves easily.
Before the instauration of the alphabet, Korea, which was greatly influenced by the Chinese civilization and religion (Confucianism), practised the ‘Hanja’ penning system. ‘Hanja’, which is the usage of Chinese characters to constitute the Korean language, was precise hard to learn. Thus, King Sejong came up with Hangul, alphabets that dependable the mode they are pronounced.
Initially, Joseon nobles who had spent years studying the ‘Hanja’ were rejected Hangul, but successful time, the King’s devotion to the betterment of the beingness of the Korean radical and the citizens efforts, successful peculiar societal groups and women, successful promoting the alphabet, solidified its use. In 1446, 3 years aft its creation, it was proclaimed the authoritative alphabet of Korea.
Today, Hangul consists of 24 letters, 14 consonants, and 10 vowel sounds. It is marked annually by Koreans connected October 9.
On the value of Hangul successful the promotion of Korean culture, Korean connection student, Christine said, “You can’t talk Korean connection without knowing the characters and however to drawstring them into words oregon sentences. In class, we are taught to correspond Hangul via quality figures, shapes oregon diagrams successful our regular lives. This way, 1 tin link Hangul to each different thing.”
However, the solemnisation of Hangul raises an absorbing question of however and erstwhile the Nigerian section languages came into existence. A question that is chartless to galore Nigerians.
“As a Christian, I judge our languages came to beryllium erstwhile God dispersed the radical from continuing the operation of the Tower of Babel by giving them antithetic languages,” joked Christine. Her response, though, is successful notation to however aged and untraceable the past of Nigerian languages is.
She nevertheless added that contrary to Korea, a mono-language society, that had to intentionally trade and prolong their connection to debar its extinction owing to colonization, Nigeria is simply a multi-language society.
“I person ne'er wondered astir that, due to the fact that I deliberation that portion we whitethorn talk antithetic languages, we are inactive one. We person kinship with 1 another, and we person been done a batch unneurotic that unites america arsenic a radical irrespective of our languages.”
Conversely, Hangul pupil and corps member, Esiri, said the nonaccomplishment of cognition of Nigerian languages past whitethorn stem from the information that they were much orally centered than written, to accidental thing that not galore Nigerians are versed successful penning them.
“Maybe we won’t cognize the time our languages originated. The Korean alphabet was made due to the fact that King Sejong said, “We volition person to constitute our language”. It would beryllium bully to person a time to observe our languages, and say, “this is the time of learning Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.”
For KCCN Hansik Class coordinator, Sharon Pwavi, the activities astir the enactment and dispersed of Hangul is indicative of the intentionality that went into its creation. “The halfway celebrates this lawsuit arsenic a mode to assistance radical recognize Korean language, Hangul and its history; to admit its creator and calligraphic qualities, and to beforehand Korean language.”
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