King Sejong Institute

[3][4] The last twenty years has seen a rise in interest and demand for the Korean language due to cultural and commercial globalisation and the Internet/Communications Revolution.

With the increase in international cooperation and business, the South Korean government has been striving to standardize the names of locations, people, and other proper nouns in Hangul.

[5][6] With such demand, the South Korean government established the concept of "King Sejong Institute" so as to provide integrated and standardised information and service for learning the Korean language as well as to coordinate and expand the institutes where people can learn or teach it.

The example here is the Institute in Seoul (서울), having 'ㅅ' on the left shoulder which indicates the first hangul letter of '서울'.

For a short-term strategy, the government is to encourage to use the name "Sejong Hakdang" (King Sejong Institute) and the standard textbook and course, while reviewing a long-term strategy to run an integrated language institute.

Nuri-Sejonghakdang is a website providing a remote education system and integrated information service related to Korean language study for Hangul learners and teachers.

It is still collecting and developing its contents to expand the online study courses and building multi-language versions of the website for users all around the world.

Annual Korean Singing Contest held at the Los Angeles King Sejong Institute (2011)