Hangul (Korean

한글) is the Korean alphabet, consists of 24 characters, 14 consonants and 10 vowels. It is one of the f ew alphabets, which has been artificially created and not evolved from hieroglyphs or ideograms, as happened in the case of most m odern languages. Each syllable is written as a block, the field square, consisting of alphabet characters (called jamo). Words in the alphabet, you can store either horizontally or vertically. By the early twentieth century, hangul was regarded as inappropriate for the educated elite, who preferred the traditional letter Hanja.