The Korean alphabet, called Hangul, is the only major writing system in human history with a known inventor and a documented design rationale — created in 1443 by King Sejong of the Joseon dynasty, who designed each consonant to physically represent the position of the tongue and lips during the corresponding sound, and published a companion document explaining exactly why each letter looked the way it did

Nobody knows who invented the letter A. Nobody knows who invented the letter B, or C, or any other letter of any writing system used by any other major language on Earth. The Latin alphabet evolved from the Etruscan script over the course of several centuries, with no identifiable inventor and no contemporaneous documentation of [...] The post The Korean alphabet, called Hangul, is the only major writing system in human history with a known inventor and a documented design rationale — created in