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Good in Good dust jacket. 159102000X. 349, a-126, pp. References, index. Photocopies from the original texts. Large octavo. Glossy pale blue dust jacket with image of a statue a Sejong. Normal wear to the dust jacket Book itself is cracking at the title gutter, some thumbing, but otherwise clean and unmarked. A usable copy of this interesting book. This superb scholarly edition by Korean language scholar Sek Yen Kim-Cho contains the original texts of Hwunmin Cengum and Hwunmin Cengum Haylyey (with photocopies of the originals in the appendices) and a complete, fully annotated translation in modern English. Beyond her analysis of historical texts, Dr. Kim-Cho critically expounds Sejong's design principle and also demonstrates that the Korean Orthophonic Alphabet is so versatile that it is ideally suited to promote and accelerate information processing and globalization as a universal script. Its great adaptability makes it a perfect multilingual transcribing system for voice-recognition and voice dictation.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 349 pages.