(True Parents) Korean is not a language invented by human beings. God, having already established in advance the people who would one day unite the world as one, gave that people a language — and that language is Korean, and Hangeul is its script. Within its twenty-four simple consonants and vowels — letters that can be fully memorized in thirty minutes — it can hold every sound that fills the universe. The cry of a bird, the cry of a beast, the words of any language in the world — write them in Hangeul and they become speech; read them and their meaning is understood at once. That is why there are no illiterate people in Korea. Linguistically and phonetically, there is no language superior to Korean.
(True Parents) Korean is an extremely high-dimensional language. In English, a shade of red is simply called “red” or “pink,” but Korean divides that single color into dozens of distinct expressions. Its adjectives for expressing the heart are developed in many layers, so it depicts the religious and emotional world more richly and deeply than any other language. It is philosophical, religious, and poetic. Above all, Korean has verticality. A language in which father, mother, and king are all addressed as “you” is a horizontal language. No building can be raised unless the vertical and the horizontal are joined into one structure. Korean has layered speech for honoring others, for lowering oneself, and for showing respect to the listener, and so it contains the vertical world exactly as it is. That is why Korean is the language of Heaven.
(True Parents) One language creates one culture; one culture creates one tradition; one tradition forms one love, one life, and one lineage. Before we unify love, we must first unify the Word. The world is entering a single one-day living sphere — how much longer can we keep relying on interpreters? By the time your grandchildren’s generation comes, the blood of twelve nations will sit together at one table — whose language will they use then? Children learn the language of their parents. If you are the descendants of the True Parents, you must use the language of the True Parents. This language revolution cannot be brought about by education or by politics. It is possible only through the power of religion centered on the True Parents.
Historically there have been about seven thousand languages. Yet the number that developed their own writing system to record that speech can be counted on one’s fingers. Moreover, about half of those are now on the verge of extinction. Manchu, the language of the Manchu people who once built the powerful Qing dynasty, has now virtually disappeared. In the end, only a few languages competitive in the digital world are likely to survive. In fact, all four of humanity’s great river-based civilizations became civilizations precisely because they were founded on language. In human history there has never been a society without speech, but fewer than one people in a hundred ever possessed letters to write their own speech. Korea and Japan, too, once borrowed and adapted Chinese characters within the Sinocentric cultural sphere. Today the countries of Europe share the Roman alphabet, and Indonesia and Vietnam, after borrowing various scripts from one country or another, now write their own languages in the alphabet. South America centers on Spanish, and Africa records its languages in French.
The Roman alphabet itself, over some four thousand years, was born through a long lineage — from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Sinaitic script, then the Phoenician script, the Greek script, and finally the Roman, or Latin, alphabet.
Hangeul, however, was born in a truly unusual way. Five hundred and eighty years ago, a king fascinated by language sat down at his desk and personally analyzed the sounds of our language one by one, designing the letters according to the science of phonetics. It was a singular event in the history of world writing systems — the deliberate creation of a language — and this Hangeul now holds within it tremendous energy that will one day unite world civilization.
Korean: “True Children of Heavenly Parents” has been rendered here in a number of the world’s languages. How does it feel as you look at each version? Don’t you feel it is a great blessing to have been born in Korea?
English: True children of Heavenly Parents
Japanese: 天の父母の真の子女
Chinese: 天上父母的真子女
Arabic: الأبناء الحقيقيون للوالدين السماويين
Hindi: स्वर्गीय माता-पिता के सच्चे बच्चे
Russian: Истинные дети Небесных Родителей
Greek: Αληθινά παιδιά των Ουράνιων Γονέων
Hebrew: ילדים אמיתיים של הורים שמימיים
Thai: ลูกที่แท้จริงของพ่อแม่แห่งสวรรค์
Tibetan: མཐོ་རིས་ཀྱི་ཕ་མའི་བུ་ཕྲུག་ཡང་དག་པ། (Tori-gi pame butuk yangdakpa)
Ethiopian (Amharic): የሰማያዊ ወላጆች እውነተኛ ልጆች
The world’s writing systems have broadly followed three stages. The first stage is pictographic script, in which the shape of a word — not its sound — is drawn as a picture. Early Egyptian and Sumerian scripts, as well as Chinese characters, belong here. Since a separate character is needed for every word, such systems are extremely difficult to learn. The next stage is a syllabary, such as Japanese, in which a single sound is written with a single basic character. Because of this, Japanese can represent only around a hundred or so syllables, which limits its ability to record every sound in the world. A further advance is the phonemic alphabet, which separates consonants and vowels and writes them individually. However complex human speech may seem, most of it can be represented through combinations of a few dozen consonants and vowels, which makes this the most efficient kind of writing. The Roman alphabet belongs to this category.
However, the British linguist Geoffrey Sampson, after studying Hangeul, concluded that it could not be explained by the existing classification system. Hangeul cannot be fully captured as a logographic, syllabic, or phonemic script. So he created an entirely new concept for it: the “featural alphabet” — a script in which the speech organs and phonetic characteristics of each sound are directly encoded into the shape of the letter itself.
| Basic Letter | Phonetic Feature | Five Elements | Related Symbols |
| ㄱ | Molar sound (牙音) | Wood | ㄱ ㅋ ㄲ ㆁ |
| ㄴ | Lingual sound (舌音) | Fire | ㄴ ㄷ ㅌ ㄸ ㄹ |
| ㅁ | Labial sound (脣音) | Earth | ㅁ ㅂ ㅍ ㅃ |
| ㅅ | Dental sound (齒音) | Metal | ㅅ ㅈ ㅊ ㅆ ㅉ ㅿ |
| ㅇ | Laryngeal sound (喉音) | Water | ㅇ ㆆ ㅎ ㆅ |
| Comparison with alphabet | K : g b : P |
Simply by looking at the shape of a letter, one can intuitively sense, for example, “ah, this letter is pronounced in the same place as ㄴ, but it must be a more forceful sound (ㅌ),” or “this one must be a tenser sound (ㄸ).” Designing letters to directly reflect the sounds made by the speech organs is exactly what a featural alphabet does.
But what about the Roman alphabet? Both k and g are molar sounds, yet their letter shapes have nothing to do with the speech organs. Both b and p are labial sounds, but flipping a b simply produces a p — it does not intuitively convey the intensity or character of the sound. Hangeul, by contrast, systematically reflects in its letter shapes the form of the speech organs, the degree of aspiration, and even whether a sound is tensed.
The Principle of Yin and Yang Is Also Contained in the Vowels
The vowels, too, were not shaped arbitrarily. According to Eastern philosophy, the universe was created through yin and yang and the five elements. Therefore the sounds of the universe must also follow yin and yang and the five elements. And so the consonants follow the order of the five elements, while the vowels follow the order of yin and yang. The basic vowel letters represent the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity (天地人 三才): ㆍ(Heaven), ㅡ(Earth), and ㅣ(Humanity).
And whether this dot ㆍ(Heaven) is attached above or below, or to the left or right, determines yin or yang. When Heaven attaches above or to the right, it becomes a yang vowel (ㅗ, ㅏ); when it attaches below or to the left, it becomes a yin vowel (ㅜ, ㅓ). When the sun rises in the east, it is ‘ㅏ’; when it climbs to the middle of the sky, it is ‘ㅗ’; when it leans toward the west, it is ‘ㅓ’; when it sets below the earth, it is ‘ㅜ’. In this way, the sense of brightness and darkness, of warmth and cold, is carried directly into the arrangement of the letters. Hangeul is the only script in the history of writing that visualizes the structure of vowels through yin and yang.
| Category | Yang Vowels: small, light, bright | Yin Vowels: large, heavy, dark |
| Mimetic/onomatopoeic words | chalssak-chalssak / ggangchung-ggangchung / banjjak-banjjak | cheolsseok-cheolsseok / ggeongchung-ggeongchung / beonjjeok-beonjjeok |
| paldak-paldak / salgeum-salgeum / handeul-handeul | peoldeok-peoldeok / seulgeum-seulgeum / heundeul-heundeul | |
| Verb endings | sara-yo, balga-yo (bright stem) | jugeo-yo, eodu-wo-yo (dark stem) |
| when warming frozen hands (ho-ho) | when cooling hot water (hu-hu) |
Because the principle of yin and yang carried in the vowels matches the yin-and-yang principle of the sounds themselves, Hangeul is the only script in which simply hearing a sound lets one instinctively sense its feeling. For example, when warming frozen hands, people blow “ho-ho” and send out yang energy, without anyone ever teaching them to do so. Conversely, when cooling hot water, they blow “hu-hu” and send out yin energy. The saying that ‘아’ (a) and ‘어’ (eo) are different is not empty talk. Because Hangeul’s letters, sounds, and the sensibility of yin and yang align perfectly, it is an inherently natural language. There is nothing else like it in the world.
Also, when one more stroke is added, or the dot is doubled, after ㅣ (producing ㅑ, ㅕ, ㅛ, ㅠ), the sound expands into a diphthong according to a consistent rule.
And the crowning achievement of Hangeul is its final consonants (batchim). Rather than creating a separate new symbol for the final consonant, and without increasing the number of basic letters, Hangeul made it possible to write an initial consonant, medial vowel, and final consonant together in one syllable block. This allows nearly every sound found in nature to be recorded in a similar way.
But let us be clear about one thing here: the idea that “Hangeul can record 100 percent of every sound in the world” — a kind of Hangeul supremacism — is not true. Hangeul is a script optimized for the Korean language; it is difficult to make it correspond perfectly, one-to-one, to sounds such as the English interdental fricatives [θ] and [ð], the labiodental fricatives [f] and [v], or the Japanese “つ (tsu)” [tsɯ] (as in まつり, matsuri), within the modern Hangeul system.
King Sejong’s Love for the People, the Heart of a Parent
King Sejong’s creation of Hangeul was, before it was even the linguistic achievement of a great and wise monarch, a magnificent narrative carried by the warm heart of a parent — a king who wanted to hear the stories of his people, who suffered sorrow and injustice because they could not write, and to give them a way to record their own hearts.
Before the creation of Hangeul, people borrowed Chinese characters to write the Korean language, but this had a fatal problem. Because Chinese characters had no equivalent for Korean particles (eun, neun, i, ga), people had to choose Chinese characters whose sounds matched and use them as particles — this is how Hyangchal (鄕札) and Idu (吏讀) were used to record Korean. In other words, both the sound and the meaning of Chinese characters were borrowed and repurposed. But this was so difficult that most of the common people remained illiterate. It was a system in which Korean particles were once again inserted using Chinese characters. Let us take the Family Pledge as an example.
Family Pledge 1 (original mixed-script version): “…Our family, the owners of Cheon Il Guk, vow to find our homeland centered on true love and to build the ideal of creation as originally intended — the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven.”
Compare this in Chinese and in the Idu transcription used in old Korea:
(Chinese) “天一国主人的我们家庭, 以真爱为中心, 寻找本乡地, 誓愿建立本然的创造理想, 地上天国与天上天国.”
(Idu transcription) “天一國 主人 我等 吾家 乙良 眞愛 隱 中心 爲在良 本鄕土 乙 尋內良 本然 之 創造理想 是白乎 地上天國 及 天上天國 乙 創建 爲 乙 事 誓 彌 內 叱 爲 尼 大.”
Can you read that? If we were still using Idu today, many of you would likely be illiterate as well. Here lies the true greatness of King Sejong’s love for his people. No matter how good the intention behind a script, if it is too difficult to learn, it only becomes another burden for the people.
And so King Sejong completed the most intuitive and simple geometric writing system — one of which it was said, “a wise person can learn it before the morning is over, and even a foolish person can master it within ten days.” As the words given through revelation describe it, Korean is truly the language of Heaven, given by God. God gave the Hunminjeongeum to Korea through King Sejong. In the Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon itself, King Sejong and his officials expressed it in just this way.
“The sounds of speech in our country differ from those of China; yet, though we have sounds, we had no letters, and so it was difficult for people to communicate freely with one another. Now that these letters have been made in a single morning, it is as though the work of a god has been accomplished. The Great Eastern Land, long shrouded in darkness, now opens its eyes to see the light.”
“Now that Correct Sounds have been made, the principles of Heaven, Earth, and all things are all contained within them — how truly marvelous! This must be that Heaven opened the sage-king’s heart and made it for us!”
“Though the letters of Correct Sounds number only twenty-eight, they unravel mysteries that had long been tangled and blocked — this must surely be a gift from Heaven! How could it possibly have been made merely by human cleverness?”
After completing the creation of Hangeul, how astonished and moved King Sejong must have been as he tried using the script himself, and how many tears of joy must he have shed thinking of how his people would rejoice? I can feel that same heart. And the fact that UNESCO’s special prize, awarded to those who contribute to the eradication of illiteracy in the world, is named the “UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize,” shows that this linguistic achievement has already been recognized internationally.
Hangeul as Evaluated by the World
| Scholar | Affiliation / Background | Assessment |
| Geoffrey Sampson | British linguistics professor | Must be judged, without a doubt, as one of humanity’s greatest intellectual achievements |
| Jared Diamond | Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel | The most advanced alphabet in the world, and the most scientific writing system |
| Gari Ledyard | Professor of Korean history, Columbia University | The most advanced script among the world’s writing systems; Koreans enjoy an incomparable “literary luxury” |
What did Professor Gari Ledyard mean when he said that “Koreans enjoy an incomparable literary luxury”? This professor came to Korea as a signal-corps serviceman at the end of the Korean War in 1953 and became captivated by Hangeul during his military service. He later returned to the United States, earned his doctorate through research on the Hunminjeongeum, and in his 1966 doctoral dissertation described Koreans as enjoying this “literary luxury.” Why would he call Hangeul a “luxury” for Koreans? In the 1960s, Koreans deeply envied people from English-speaking countries, and those who spoke good English were looked up to. Yet Professor Ledyard, who understood comparative linguistics well, may have seen how little Koreans realized the extraordinary linguistic value of the Hangeul they used every day without a second thought, absorbed instead in blind admiration for English — and perhaps his remark was, in effect, a gentle rebuke: “Hangeul is far too great a luxury to be wasted on Koreans who do not appreciate it.” Now, however, Koreans are beginning to recognize the value of their own culture and language, often through the eyes of foreigners.
Compare English and Hangeul intuitively, and Hangeul’s structural strengths become clear. Western scripts arrange their letters in a flat, one-dimensional line along a single axis; the eye must scan each letter individually and combine them. Hangeul, however, compresses the initial consonant, medial vowel, and final consonant into a single square block — a three-dimensional structure that is read intuitively.
Cheonsimwon, ㅊㅓㄴㅅㅣㅁㅇㅜㅓㄴ, Cheonsimwon — do you feel the difference? Hangeul can produce the most densely compact sentences. In English one must write “See you tomorrow,” while in Korean it can be reduced to just two syllables, “낼 봐” (nael bwa).
As this passage shows, Hangeul is not written out linearly like English, but is gathered letter by letter into square blocks. On top of that, the sound of each letter is unified with yin-yang and the five elements, with vertical and horizontal order, and even with emotion, all at once. It is, in truth, a script that goes beyond three dimensions into four and even five dimensions of depth. This is why True Parents called Hangeul “the language of Heaven.”
Let me give one example. The English word “wear” is used in nearly every situation in which something is put on any part of the body, so long as it means “to be in a state of being attached to the body.” Hangeul, however, has a distinct expression for each specific case:
wear a t-shirt → tisyeocheu-reul ipda (입다)
wear shoes → sinbal-eul sinda (신다)
wear a hat → moja-reul sseuda (쓰다)
wear gloves → jangab-eul kkida (끼다)
wear a ring → banji-reul kkida (끼다)
wear glasses → angyeong-eul sseuda (쓰다)
If everything worn on the body is simply called “wear,” then it stands to reason that people who use such a finely differentiated language as Korean would tend to have a sharper intelligence than those who do not. And for a humanoid AI that must interpret voice signals through digital symbols, wouldn’t such precision also reduce the chance of error?
The Hangeul Hallyu: What Is Happening in the World Right Now
These days, riding an extraordinary wave of the Korean Wave (Hallyu) sweeping the entire world, there is a real fervor for the very Hangeul we use every day. At one American high school, a Korean-language class was opened, and so many students applied — five times the available seats — that the school struggled to find enough Korean-language teachers. There are now more than 2,700 such places across 47 countries around the world. A strange phenomenon is occurring: schools are overflowing with students, yet there are not enough teachers to teach them. The number of applicants for the TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) has nearly doubled within just a few years, reaching several hundred thousand. This means that far more people now have concrete purposes — study abroad, employment — beyond simple curiosity. India has replaced Chinese with Korean as a second foreign language, and countries across every continent, including France, Thailand, and the United States, are adopting Korean as an official school subject. Many people start out simply because they love Korean Wave culture and want to sing along to the lyrics, but that is not the whole story. For young people in countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, Korean is a “ladder of opportunity” that can change their entire life, because knowing Korean can double or triple their salary. For some, it is an enjoyable hobby; for others, it is the doorway to an opportunity on which their family’s livelihood depends.
In truth, Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to learn, because of its grammar and its complex honorific system. Yet Hangeul itself is learned faster than any other script in the world. At first, foreigners are drawn in because the letters look pretty, charming, and like the script of an advanced civilization, and because listening to Korean feels almost like listening to a melody — and then they are astonished to find they can read the letters within a single day. Having taken that first step, as they go on to learn Korean, they are astonished by its vertical expressions, astonished by its difficult particles, astonished by its finely differentiated expressions, astonished by the seemingly infinite expansion of its onomatopoeic and mimetic words — and just as they begin to struggle, the moment they come to feel the deep emotional world within Hangeul, they are drawn ever further into the three-dimensional charm of the Korean language. This Hangeul, which we enjoy so naturally, like the air we breathe, is for someone else a desperate dream and a life opportunity, memorized late into the night at the cost of sleep. The warm heart with which King Sejong created Hangeul, wishing that none of his people would suffer injustice for being unable to write, has now, five hundred years later, become a language that opens up dreams and opportunities for people all over the world.
If Hangeul Had Never Existed
Let us imagine, for a moment: if King Sejong had not created Hangeul in 1443, what script would Korea be using today? Perhaps we would still be laboriously borrowing Chinese characters to write the sounds of our language, and after Liberation, under the American military government, we might have adopted the convenience of a phonemic script and begun writing Korean in the Roman alphabet, just as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam did. In that case, we would have lost our very soul and our culture; there would have been no Korean Wave, and no Miracle on the Han River.
But God protected us, and Heavenly Parent, through the deep love of King Sejong for his people, gave Hangeul to Korea as a gift in 1443. This astonishing history could never have come from human power alone. Just as, four hundred years before sending Jesus, God had the prophet Malachi prepare the way to receive the Messiah, and just as, four hundred years before sending the True Parents in the history of world Christianity, God worked through Martin Luther’s Reformation to prepare a Christian democracy, so too, in the Korean people who would directly receive the True Parents, God had Hangeul created 480 years before the birth of True Father and 500 years before the birth of True Mother — laying the linguistic foundation on which the Korean people could rise and flourish.
If the True Parents were to be born among the Korean people and complete one human family under the one God, then even though Heavenly Parent, the True Parents, and the New Word are all absolutely necessary, how could a truly unified culture ever be built if humanity’s languages themselves remain divided? If the True Parents are born in Korea, their children must use “the language of the True Parents.” That preparatory work was carried out through King Sejong, who loved his people with a parent’s heart and gave them Hangeul in advance. This is why, even King Sejong himself, after using Hangeul following its creation, marveled and said, “It is like the work of a god.”
I have come to be convinced that, through Hangeul, the words of the True Parents, and the dynamism of the Korean people, a Pax Korea will come to be formed. Consider the history of humanity’s great superpowers: the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the British Empire, and now the era of Pax Americana. Ironically, the world’s first superpower, the Persian Empire — modern-day Iran — is now in conflict with the world’s current greatest power, the United States. Iran cannot compete militarily, yet it does not easily submit either.
America did not become a superpower through military strength alone. Through Google, Microsoft, Tesla, AI, SpaceX, the English language, and its financial and economic power, it has become an age in which people around the world find it hard to live outside America’s orbit. That is why the word “Pax,” meaning peace, is not simply bestowed because a nation is strong. Yet even America shows signs of internal limits to its ability to continue leading the world. China, because of the limitations of its difficult character-based civilization and its communist system, may perhaps achieve a second-tier position, but it seems unlikely to reach a “Pax China” that the world would willingly want to follow.
So which nation will lead the world going forward? Did not the True Parents state, on the very last page of the Divine Principle, that all civilizations will bear fruit in Korea? Now the era of Pax Korea is coming. Korea’s national power currently ranks around sixth in the world, and the Korean language ranks around sixth as well. All four of humanity’s great civilizations shared one thing in common: they possessed languages with advanced writing systems. With Hangeul — the most excellent language of the heart — we can build a culture of the heart in which people of every race become one. In the end, an era is coming in which all of humanity will have no choice but to learn Hangeul, both for the sake of happiness and for the sake of survival.
However, the excellence of Hangeul and Korea’s national power alone cannot overcome the wall that is English. This is because the whole world already relies overwhelmingly on English in daily life. It is nearly impossible for people to abandon the English they have used so conveniently and switch instead to Korean, one of the hardest languages to learn, and there is likely to be strong resistance driven by national self-interest. But the situation changes once a significant portion of humanity begins to learn the words of the True Parents. To learn the deep world of Heavenly Parent’s heart, a horizontal language, or a language not finely differentiated in emotional expression, will reach its limits. And so Korean will become essential for the people of the world. In the end, just as the excellence of Korean becomes apparent, once people begin to taste the words of the Divine Principle, anyone will strive with all their might, staying up through the night, to learn Hangeul. Then, just as America now tries to check China, no one will be able to block it by force. The moment the center of gravity tips toward Korea, because of the value of the Principle and the excellence of Hangeul, Korean will rapidly shift from being a second foreign language to being adopted as people’s own native tongue. Then, just as the True Parents prophesied, one Word, one truth, and one culture of heart will begin to appear under the one Heavenly Parent. It is only natural that children learn the language of their parents. Indeed~
Reference
Although Hangeul is a language created by Heaven, it faced three crises that threatened its very survival.
At the time of its creation, some scholars of the Hall of Worthies, including Choe Manri, opposed its promulgation, submitting a memorial in 1444 arguing that “creating an independent script is something only barbarian peoples like the Mongols or the Jurchens would do.”
Then there was King Yeonsangun’s ban on Hangeul (eonmun), a harsh and sweeping suppression that lasted about two years and two months, from July 1504 to September 1506. Because posters written in easy-to-read Hangeul criticizing King Yeonsangun appeared everywhere, he tried to eliminate Hangeul for purely political reasons — an absurd episode. During this time, many books written in Hangeul were burned and lost.
Even after its creation, Hangeul was not designated as the nation’s official written language for 450 years. It was only in 1894, the 31st year of King Gojong’s reign, that Hangeul was adopted as the official national script. Yet even then, the illiteracy rate still exceeded 95 percent.
Then, during the Japanese colonial period, the forcible suppression of Hangeul intensified in earnest after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, together with the policy of “Japan and Korea as One Body” (naisen ittai). Koreans were forced to worship at Shinto shrines and to adopt Japanese names, and the “Japanese-only” movement was pushed forward relentlessly. After 1938, Korean-language classes were abolished in every school.
Before 1940, Hangeul was even mocked by pro-Japanese scholars, who circulated the so-called “lattice-window origin theory” — the claim that King Sejong had designed Hangeul after looking at the lattice pattern of a wooden window.
What put an end to this denigration in a single stroke was the discovery, in 1940 in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, of the original Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon, which recorded the principles of Hangeul’s creation from beginning to end. But this was during the darkest years of the “Imperial Subjectification” policy, when Korean-language books were being seized and burned. Had it fallen first into the hands of the Government-General’s military police, it would surely have been reduced to ashes. The man who stepped forward at that very moment was Gansong Jeon Hyeong-pil (1906–1962). In 1943, he heard that the original book, kept for generations by a family in Andong, was up for sale. The owner was asking one thousand won — the price of a tiled house in Seoul. After reading the book, Gansong said without hesitation, “A cultural heritage this precious and brilliant has a duty to receive the finest treatment worthy of its value.” He then paid ten thousand won — ten times the asking price. On top of that, he gave the broker who had found the book an additional one thousand won as a fee — the price of another tiled house. In all, it cost him the equivalent of eleven tiled houses. Gansong smuggled the Haeryebon past the eyes of the military police to Seoul, hid it in the deepest part of his bedroom, and slept every night with it placed under his pillow. When the Korean War broke out and Seoul burned to the ground, he left all the other treasures of his museum behind and fled — carrying only the paulownia-wood box containing the Haeryebon, wrapped inside his clothing against his chest, all the way on foot to Busan. Whether sleeping or walking, he never once let it leave his body. Without his devotion, the secret of Hangeul’s creation would have been lost, and it would still be dismissed today under the “lattice-window origin theory.”
From 1937 to 1945, the Japanese colonial government forced the use of Japanese and abolished Korean-language education in schools. That lasted about eight years until Liberation. Had that rule continued for a hundred years, the Korean language itself might have disappeared. Yet, alongside the passion of our independence movement, Liberation came almost as a miracle, through the help of Heaven.
In just the same way, the Unification Church, too, has faced a great crisis, but through the devotion of its members and the dramatic help of Heavenly Parent, it will surely overcome it. And just as in the process of restoration through indemnity, so too here: after bitterness comes joy — overcome the hardship, and glory will follow. Having gone through such enormous indemnity to reach the very lowest point, we will be raised to the very highest. The Koreans who persecuted the True Parents will repent; the Japanese who dissolved the Japan church will repent; and in the end, the whole world will be astonished. And then the New Word will break free of the headwinds, catch a following wind, and spread rapidly throughout the world. Indeed~
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