한글은 발명된 문자다. (han, geul, jamo) — the Korean alphabet is, uniquely among the world's writing systems, the deliberate work of one mind in one century. In 1443, King Sejong and his scholars set out not to record speech but to diagram it: each consonant a sketch of the speech-organ that produces it, each vowel a small cosmology of heaven, earth, and human. This cabinet is devoted to looking at those letters as architecture — the geometry of ㅇ as a circle of breath, the right-angle chamber of ㅁ, the asymmetry of ㄹ that contains both flowing water and a coiled pine branch.

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