Knocking on the Future with Hangul... 'Hangul Week' Opens on the 4th of Next Month

Presenting Various Programs to Experience the Value of Hangeul

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will hold the '2023 Hangul Week' to commemorate the 577th anniversary of Hangul Day. From the 4th to the 10th of next month, various programs allowing people to experience the value of Hangul will be presented at the National Hangeul Museum and other locations.

The opening ceremony will take place at the aT Center in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, where the 'Hangul Cultural Industry Exhibition' is held. Artist Yeom Dong-gyun will mark the start by drawing Hangul pictures in a virtual reality space. The Hangul Cultural Industry Exhibition is an integrated exhibition of Hangul culture and industry. This year, it is set up as a platform to activate the industrial foundation responding to changes brought by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT. Thirty-six companies related to AI, chatbots, machine translation, education, and publishing will participate.

The National Hangeul Museum will hold various events under the theme 'The Power of Hangul Knocking on the Future!' during the festival period. These include the 'Jiphyeonjeon Academic Conference (October 4-5)', 'Hangul Font Fashion Show', the finals of 'Our Language Creative Song Contest', 'Hangul Breaking Dance (all on October 7)', the musical 'Light of Hangul, Song of Justice', and the picture narration performance 'Art and Sound of Joseon (all on October 8)'. On Hangul Day (October 9), awards and performances for video contest entries featuring Hangul, titled 'Recording ㄱ... More Letter Play', will be held, along with children's choir performances, traditional Korean music a cappella performances, singer Davichi's congratulatory performance, and traditional performance arts and martial arts shows.

A Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism official said, "Visitors can also experience various aspects of Hangul connecting the past, present, and future, such as making pressed flower bookmarks with letter pictures, creating Hangul light letters, and drawing Hangul on fingernails."

In addition, the National Institute of the Korean Language will host the 'World Korean Language Festival (October 5-6 at aT Center)', the National Museum of World Writing Systems will hold the 'Hangul Meeting Experience Event (October 7-9 at Songdo Central Park Lawn)', the King Sejong Institute Foundation will conduct Korean culture experience training (October 5-11), the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles will hold the 'Korean Language Poetry Recitation Contest in America (October 4)', and the Korean Cultural Center in Osaka will present the 'Hangul Content and Cultural Products Exhibition (September 25 - October 21)', each contributing to the celebration of Hangul Week. For more details, please refer to the official Hangul Week website, social media channels, and YouTube channel.

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