Hangul Proclamation Day is celebrated on October 9th in South Korea and is on January 15th in North Korea, where it is called Chosŏn’gŭl Day. Chosŏn’gŭl Day is also in line of the lunar calender of the 15th century. Hangul Proclamation Day is the holiday that celebrates the founding of Hangul in 1443. King Sejong the Great is the "inventor" of Hangul. Koreans take pride on their language being simpler than Chinese and Japanese. Instead of the 50,000 characters of Chinese, Hangul has 29 characters. King Sejong has said that "a fool can learn Hangul in 10 minutes, if he wishes to."
  
   The start of Hangul was toward the middle of 1443. Then, all of the Joseon Dynasty used Chinese, spoke Chinese. The king of the kingdom decided it was time to be independent, as well as actually have a language that others could learn and communicate. King Sejong had his scholars invent an alphabet and create words for everything. Soon after, he had a compleate language that everyone could learn and understand,with simple characters.
   
   Although it is simpler, many people still think it is just the letters of English in code, although it is not. Also, because there is barely any sign of English characters in the symbols, you cannot directly make a translation unless you study Korean and/or English enough.