Sejong the Great
Fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
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He invented an alphabet. In 1443, Sejong commissioned Hangul — a phonetic script built for Korean, not borrowed from China — so common people could read and write. Five centuries later, it remains the writing system of the peninsula, and his name is synonymous with Korean cultural identity.
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Born in 1397, the third son of the future King Taejong, Sejong was considered more gifted than his troubled older brother, the crown prince. In mid-1418, the crown prince was deposed and Sejong was elevated; months later, his father abdicated and Sejong took the throne at twenty-one. His reign became a high-water mark: he reestablished the Hall of Worthies in 1420, a research body that produced Korea's first native calendar, a 365-volume medical encyclopedia, and key agricultural texts. He led a successful invasion of Tsushima Island in 1419, then brokered decades of peace with Japan; he pushe…
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