In 1994 June addition of well known U.S science magazine's article on the topic of (Appropriate Writing) Professor. Diamond praised Hangul as the most rational letter system backed by its originality and effectiveness of scientific symbol combination. He went further to mentioned that the illiteracy rate in Korea(Chosun daily news paper 94.5.25) are the lowest in the world due to the simplicity and excellence of Hangul.
Also, the well known American authoress Pear Buck who wrote the best selling novel (Earth) appraised Hangul as the most simple yet the most excellent alphabet in the world. and compared king Sejong as Korea's Leonardo Davincci.(Chosun daily news paper 96.10.7)
Even more, Professor J.D McCawley of the university of Chicago an American who eater Korean food on every October 10th(Hangul Day) as he loved Hangul so much.(KBS1 96.10.9)
A few years ago, in France, there was a academic symposium were held for International Linguistic Scholars. Unfortunately, Korean scholars did not participated in the event, at the symposium the subject was brought up as a issue by the scholars and suggested to use Hangul as International Common Language. It was simply a surprising news.(KBS1 96.10.9)
In this manner, despite world's recognition of excellence of Hangul, we are actually not knowing the importance of Hangul. In May, 1986 Professor Lee Hyun-Bok from Seoul National university has visited department of phonetic language of Rees university in England.
At that time Professor Geoffrey Sampson from Rees university has highly praised Hangul's unique feature for its scientific method of using sound organ to produce the alphabet and the derivation of adding stroke to the basic alphabet to produce phonetically identical system is very systematic and excellent.
Also, he even classified Hangul to new dimensional feature system from its own phonetic symbols This new classification by professor Sampson was the first ever in the world and this proves the excellence and the fact that Hangul is the only feature alphabet exist in the world.
Finally, in Oct 1st, 1997, UNESCO has designated Korean Hunminjungeum as a International Record Assets.
