Jason Weiser
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The king waved for his ministers to leave them.
The youth was silent, but the king knew what he was thinking.
"'telling him to go on.
"'He could speak freely.
"'You did it out of pity.'
"'The youth's voice sunk.
"'I'm going to tell you a story,' the king replied, "'not responding to what the young man said.'
You know how we got our alphabet?
The student ventured.
Hangul came from heaven itself, from the brush of the Jade Emperor.
You see, I knew that if our way of writing remained as it was, with the Hanja characters that come from China and its poor fit with our language here, the average person would never understand it.
So I brought it up with the ministers and the nobles.
And you know what they said?
No, it wouldn't change.
It worked well enough for them, so it worked well enough.
It would take a sign from heaven for Korea to have a new alphabet.
The Jade Emperor must have heard because the next day when they walked out in the garden, the worms and the flies and other insects on 24 different leaves formed my new alphabet.