How to Write Korean in 20 Minutes

If you ever wanted to learn how to write Korean, then this video will be perfect. Here, I talk about both handwriting and typing because, after all, typing is just digital writing, and I assumed people would be curious about both. This video covers various topics from the writing orders of Korean letters, to the science behind the Korean keyboard, to the weird depths of the Korean iceberg—this is definitely one of the most detailed videos on Korean out there. This is a sequel to “How to Read Korean“—that’s right, it only took me 4 years to make a sequel. You don’t need to have watched that video to understand this one (since it’s Reading vs. Writing). In any case, they’re actually supposed to complement each other. This was definitely one of the most ambitious projects on my channel ever, not just this year. I’ve never gone all-out like this in making/editing a video before. For a long time, I’ve wanted to make this video as a follow-up to “How to Read Korean“; I just didn’t know how I would structure the video or what I would say in it. Finally, after a lot of consideration, I decided to move on with it this summer. Researching and brainstorming ideas took quite a bit of time because I wanted to ensure I was covering everything necessary. Furthermore, since this video is for anyone—including foreign learners—I had to think about how to explain things easier (that would normally be straightforward/easy to Koreans). Writing the script (which was contemporaneous with research) also took a couple weeks as well. When it came to editing, I realized I wanted to make this more visually appealing than other Korean videos I’ve made, which resembled slideshows. I decided to make this video as cinematic as possible—like a documentary—giving myself no time limit or deadline for this video to unleash as much creativity as possible. And I’m proud to say that it worked. Creating the visual materials and coming up with the transitions in between have never been more fun. I hope this is one of the most well-edited Korean videos out there, combining artistic visualization and my signature tangents—sometimes digressing from the topic, but still informative and interesting enough to point out. (You’ll be surprised to hear that I didn’t include a tangent about Korean 3-set or 10-key keyboards, which would’ve led to another huge rabbit hole.) I think this is one of the best videos I’ve ever made, if not THE best. This was one of the most time-consuming projects on my channel, spanning slightly over a month from inception to completion. Editing itself took 12 days, which consisted of working on it every day from morning to night (not even joking), and Premiere crashing 11 times throughout didn’t help at all. I’ve never put in this much effort for a video before, and it was only possible because it was summer break. Consequently, it would be difficult to dedicate such an immense amount of time to another project like this in the future. I will still try, though. I hope you guys found this video helpful! Leave a like if you did and subscribe to the channel! Thanks for watching. SOURCES: Korean Letter Frequencies & Heatmaps: and (I created my own heatmap for confirming calculations and better visual customization) Korean Syllables/Unicode : and #Hangul_in_Unicode Korean’s 2,350 Common Characters: 완성형/한글 목록/KS X 1001 Korean has the most words in the world: About Korean Characters: 현대 한글의 모든 글자 and 뷁 Website full of Old Korean characters: 랜덤_옛한글 Serious thanks to the legendary @chiclix on Twitter (not X) for indirectly leading me to this website (