How does Korean Language works?
Brief information about Hanja and Hangul symbols

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The Korean language uses two different characters system. Though, the modern Japanese text is written with a mixture Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. However, each writing is used in a somewhat different.Non-Japanese names are usually translated with Katakana characters.

Hanja

Hanja was characters borrowed from Chinese pronounced in the Korean way. In the 15th century a national writing system was developed by Sejong the Great, nowadays called Hangul. Hanja is the Korean name of the Chinese word hanzi, which means "Han characters". (Han refers to the Han Dynasty 206BC - 220AD)
Hanja are ideograms, which mean that each character has its own meaning and corresponds to a word. By combining characters, more words can be created.

Hangul

In the 15th century a national writing system was developed by Sejong the Great, nowadays called Hangul. Hangul became the official writing system for the Korean in the mid-1440. Because of the influence of Confucianism and of Chinese culture, Hangul was not widely used by scholars or Koreans of the upper classes until after 1945.Nowaday, hangul is widely used as the main character system.

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