>Me> Korean Hangul was also invented before the Europeans came.
>The current Korean script was invented after European contact,
>because the Koreans recognized the superiority of the alphabetic
>paradigm over Chinese.
Incorrect. It was invented shortly before the mid-1440s when the King decreed it the official script (well before the Portuguese rounded the Cape of Good Hope). The impetus for its development seems to have been the development of Korean movable type (which appears in the previous century).
Because of its quasi-modern origins, I shy away from having it in the East.
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