MANNAM: King Sejong was shocked! and made ‘훈민정음(Hun-min-jung-uem)’!
In
Joseon Dynasty period, there was a murder. A son killed his father by his own
will. Even today, if we hear this kind of news on the media, people get shocked
because we think, ‘how can a person kill his own father or mother?’ Especially,
Korea is a country which has words and acts to respect the elders. So it must
have been a big and shocking issue to all the people in Joseon.
The king, who
was Sejong at that time, was also shocked about this news. He couldn’t let the people
commit a crime anymore. So he gathered his vassals to talk about this fact.
After the meeting, King Sejong decides to make a book about how to act polite
and have manners. So Sejong gathered all the information into one book. The
book is [삼강행실도(Samgaghengsildo)]. It has many good
examples of people who served their parents well.
He wanted to make the people
to follow the good examples. But there was a big problem. Although the book was
published, the people couldn’t read it because they didn’t know how to read at
all. To improve this problem, this time, Sejong made another book with pictures
followed by words. So the people who can’t read can guess the content by the
pictures. First this looked liked it was going on well rather it brought
misunderstanding and confused the people.
This
is why King Sejong made ‘훈민정음(Hun-min-jung-uem). This
is the background of the story. The people who learn Korean made by King
Sejong! Come to MANNAM Korean class! Let’s share our information about Korean,
and also Korean history. The small knowledge that we have can grow by informing
each other! We can do that in MANNAM!
