Hangeul is the best alphabet in the world that all languages dream of.

[JangDDaeng]

@wulantika I agree that the title bit annoying and Japanese Gana is rooting from chinese character but hangul is not from Chinese Character. Hangul is not match to part of Chinese Character.

[wulantika]

the title bit annoying. I guess hangul is just a simplicity from Chinese Kanji. Japanese and Korean are rooting from Chinese character,so I guess Chinese is best represent.

[byJessCh]

The title is fail.

[crystarjin]

I like the Korean writing system and all but this video smells like nationalism. >.>

[rollonoajoro3]

this critic do neglect linguistician,hahaha. but the fact can't change. THINK REASONIINGLY.... pls don't criticize because you do not use hangul....

[rollonoajoro3]

hangul can express all pronunciation. but learner think it's pronunciation is hard to understand because other alphabet can't express some of pronunciation. FUCK STUPID CRITIC. Do distinguish between hangul(letters) and korean(language). korean language don't need to use capacity of hangul. so hangul not using in korean language is disappear. but it also can express all pronunciation and even accent.. hangul can all express not only korean language but also other language.

[Yempis]

Title says "best alphabet in the world"

EPIC FAIL

Hangeul isn't an alphabet,it's a script.

did you know that alphabet comes from the first greek word alpha?

they named their script as alphabet because it started with the letter alpha.

[pumpfever]

"Superiority" of Hangul? haha xD!

[xXXItadakimasuXXx]

I like the Korean alphabet . I am German and I tried to learn Hangul and I think it's quite simple if you really want to learn it .. but I had problems with learning the vocabulary .. so I can just write  a few words^^

[icylakepaxphile]

i;m a korean bur your video is really silly at it's worst. Korean alphabet even can not correctly defict Korean language's pronunciation(Korean has very complex lieson system ). Korean alphabet is just as good as other alphabet systems.

[bluemonolith88]

@icylakepaxphile 진짜 한국인이세요? I used to do lots of English to Korean translation work in college, so I know both languages very intimately. And like many other scholars, I can attest that using English as the frame of reference, Hangul gets my vote as the best script in the world in terms of how easy it is to learn, its internal logic, and how so streamlined it is. There is something beautiful about a script that works so well and efficiently as Hangul. 뿌리깊은 나무 좀 보세요.

[andrewkilroyable]

Why are there east Asians trying to murder each other like this?

[Kungeninkorea]

@andrewkilroyable because of history.. ^ ^

[Kungeninkorea]

@andrewkilroyable because of history.. ^ ^

[ChSoftblow]

Hey NAVER, can't you explain the principle of the invention of Hangul?

[caracao14]

lol, looks like an apple ad. 

[sendtochihiro]

방수Can be 防水= to waterproof, 放水= to discharge water, 防守= to protect, and傍受= to intercept

You can’t even communicate with each other sufficiently because Hangul can’t distinguish homophones. Hangul is NOT superior to any other writing system. Wake up, Koreans, from your delusion, and learn Hanja to make up for the DEFICIENCY of Hangul. Don’t you remember the 2009 KTX accident which was caused by the contractors’ confusion between 방수and 방수?

[challanful]

@sendtochihiro Hey I used to live in Germany for decades I know the Latin alphabet and Hangul. If I compare them they are both good. But in some cases like the computer keyboard layout Hangul is much faster, logical and more effective to Latin alphabet. You even don't know Hangul, learn it before you argue. And regarding homophones. It is indeed a disadvantage. This is a problem Hangul shares with Latin. But there are more advantages than disadvantages compared to other writing system.

[LunaXenoLovegood]

@sendtochihiro Also, it all depends on the context. Koreans should be able to tell which you mean based on other clues in the sentence or passage.

[Ausiz]

@sendtochihiro This same problem exists in latin alphabet. We in lithuanian language (latin alphabet) have many coinciding words, so does english language and so on. In the most cases it's not that big issue at all, because in the sentence the meaning can be seen clearly from it's position and relation to other words in the sentence.Hanja (Kanji) has it's pros and cons, but learning edge makes it very very unpractical.There's lots of hype around Hangul,but actually korean writing system is good.

[StandingRedPanda]

But when it comes to beauty, then one's opinion doesn't really matter. The nicest sounding language is mandarin, the most amazing to me is korean because of Brown Eyed Girls, while the most beautiful scripts are tamil & egyptian hieroglyphs. Lets use hieroglyphs in science! There, nuff said. :D

[StandingRedPanda]

When I read the title of this video, I thought what an awful low self-esteem do koreans have. "Shall we spread love around the world?" - "aniyo (no), hangeul!". "Wouldn't doing charity be better?" - "aniyo, hangeul is good enough" :/

This is something I would expect from communists but even capitalist-turned chinese don't do this. It must be difficult for a korean to be squeezed between two superpowers. Look, you don't need to spread hangeul to make yourself feel good. You need a psychiatrist!

[challanful]

@StandingRedPanda I think you have low self esteem. Why so concerned about this issue? Do you feel offended? Put your effort in other useful things. Just igore it if you dont like it. You dont have to come to this video.

[alvinkua118]

example:李，里，力，丽，理，历 in hanja are different meaning, in hanguel pronunciation are the same and the writing sistem are also the same like Rome alphabet: Li

[alvinkua118]

what the proud, its cannot diffrenciate the meaning when it comes to same pronunciation with different meaning with the same writing.

[djdrain2]

"Hangeul is the best alphabet in the world that all languages dream of" because it's easy to learn, the characters are easy to distinguish, so you won't have problems with is this an "a" or "o"? . It looks very good actually and it might just well be introduced as a candidate for a "global alphabet" to be used in the future. You can all argue about "i think this" and "he thinks that" but it's not like some world wide specialists in linguistics would make a false statement.

[YoyoFlamingo]

@djdrain2 The Latin alphabet works just as well....

[StandingRedPanda]

@djdrain2 They can be worldwide specialists in linguistics but that's not how science works. You need a scientific consensus from the scientific community. Learn from Potholer54 how science works or look how Pluto was demoted at the International Astronomical Union. In a same way a global alphabet is picked.

But since latin is already everywhere, I don't think any other writing will replace it. That's a hippy dream. It's just like the useless esperanto - just learn english! It's everywhere.

[NoNoSpice]

The description about hangul "most scentific" or "Oxford selected..." were the fabrication by MBS. Stupid Koreans added these explanations to their textbook in school. It's funny, isn't it? The true fact about Hangul is that it was made for stupid Koreans, who can't describe things by Chinese characters. So Hangul is called as the stupid character in Japan.

[challanful]

@NoNoSpice Wow, you are everywhere bashing Koreans. Low self esteem? Its annoying, ISN'T IT?

[sendtochihiro]

@challanful

It hurts your pride to be told Hangul is not perfect?

[challanful]

@sendtochihiro Who said that Hangul is perfect? Hangul has disadvantages like Latin as it is a phonetic alphabet. But in the full package Hangul is best. Hey, we live in the digital age. And Hangul suits it much better than other writing systems especially Chinese logographic system. I can speak German and Korean. But with Hangul you have a faster stroke on your keyboard. Hangul and Latin are of same kind of alphabet. But Hangul is build up more logically.Therefore best for digital age.

[sarcasmagasm]

@puppyspawpackspunch granted, IPA is not used on a regular basis because it is not designed for any specific language, no language uses all possible phonemes. Hangul is really only useful for representing the phonemes used in Korean and other languages that use the same phonemes. I also have a problem with it being called the "most scientific" because that's a very vague statement, In what way is it the most scientific ? what does that even mean ?

[sarcasmagasm]

I would have to disagree with the Idea that Hangul is the Most scientific. That would have to be IPA, which is designed to represent every possible phoneme a person can make. Hangul is not able to do that.

[mikiyu1000]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ한국어가 짱먹엌ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ한국어가 되게 표현하는게 자유로운거같음..근데 외국인이 배우기엔 진짜 ㅏ짜증돋긴하겟다

[demarmelan]

아무런 진전이 없습니다 ...

[demarmelan]

on n'est pas plus avancé là...

[crownybrowny]

논점 흐리고 있다는 겁니다. 이런 좋은 동영상에 그런 딴지를 거셔야 하나요?

[crownybrowny]

@gwajadanji 님... 문맹률에서 또 교묘하게 성격으로까지 몰고가시네요. 존

[GhostOrchestra]

This is true....Chinese is SOOOOOO much harder to learn DX And yes, I know because I'm Chinese o.o

[frankiethefrank]

아이 라익 트 라읻 잉리시 유싱 한국!

(I like to write English using Hangeul!)

[gyuujuice]

@frankiethefrank

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Um, you said "한국" which is Korea not "한굴" which is Hangeul.

It's OK I have made worse mistakes before. 8)

[chleksdk]

I love hangeul.

[bluehunter428]

우리나라도 문자는 쉬우나 한국어 국어교사가 봐도 어려운 법전,의학관련 책을 쉽게 쓸 수 있도록 고쳐야 한다.

[gwajadanji]

참 웃긴 게...이렇게 쉬운 문자가 있는것에 비하면....한국 문맹률 정말 높은 것임.ㅋㅋ 어떤 할머니들은 한글을 모르고, 다수의 젊은 사람들은 맞춤법이나 올바른 단어 사용법을 모름. 진짜 나라망신임....그렇다고 교양이나 있으면 말을 안 해. 한국인들은 성질만 좀 건드리면 입에서 당장 씨발 소리 튀어나오지. ㅋㅋ 아니면 뒤에서 욕하거나.

[GaramWie]

@gwajadanji 제 주위 사람들은 그러지 않는데요.

[polly010794]

"even the fool one will learn in 10 days." I guess this is true. I had learned how to read and write simple hangul in an hour or two. Within the day, I had learned how to read and write simple korean words without any guide from any kind of learning material. I'm only 16 years old. And I guess I could say anyone in my age would have difficulty to learn any kind of language but Hangul was surprisingly easy for me. Out of all 4 languages I'm tried to learn, Hangul is the easiest one.

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 you are seriously uneducated. definitely not worth my time.

[herifuzhenguan3]

@luv2sd Yes. Latin characters were initially used for Latin. But it also suits Other indo-European languages very well. It's because of all indo-european languages share some similar features. They are all from indo-european language family. The same reasoning applies to Hangul. hangul was initially used for Korean. It many also suit other languages by either linguistic kinship ore coincidence. But it cannot be applicable to all languages in the world. The title of the clip is an exaggeration.

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 no it's not an exaggeration. the video only used quotes from what other experts already said about Hangul. it contains no personal opinion or thought about Hangul. look at all the quotes and names under them.

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 0:22 "Hangeul is the most scientific characters in the world" by Geoffrey Sampson (authoer of 'Writing systems')

why don't you argue with him instead of venting on youtube? this video honestly doesn't contain any personal opinion about Hangul.

[luv2sd]

0:30 "It is equipped with the most unique and scientific signal system that can be found nowhere else in the world" by Edwin O. Reischauer (a professor of linguistics at HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

unless you have equivalent or better knowledge in linguistics than this Harvard professor, you are out of league. I'm sorry but Chinese characters just don't come anywhere close to the efficiency of Hangul. it's the linguistic experts that made the claim that Hangul is the best, not the video.

[tokee1234567]

@herifuzhenguan3 well the title of the clip is a direct quotation from one of the linguist in Harvard. Koreans never said this before someone else in a foreign country said this to them, of which they were greatful.

[GaramWie]

@herifuzhenguan3 I am Korean and I think so.

[kuroibuta]

its nice to read Chinese and Japanese because they have meaning to the characters, its more satisfying. I am learning Korean now and I must say... so much easier to learn!!

[ibitoshi]

Eh, I thought I was going to be introduced to the reasons behind the claim, but all I saw was a strange commercial for a language. Do Koreans need this kind of masturbatory notions to avoid feeling inferior?

[ciel177]

한글이 모든 언어가 꿈꾸는 세계에서 가장 좋은 글자라는 말은 한국사람은 동의하지만 그외에는 반감을 줄수있습니다. 겸손하지못하고 민족주의로 다가올 수도 있답니다. 여기 코멘트들도 부정적인 반응이 많군요. 이런 제목 삼가주세요. 도움이 되지않습니다.

[CetiAlphaVI]

I think it would be more accurate to say hangul is one of the the best alphabet for foreigners learning the language. I really think the "best" alphabet is the one you grew up using.

[ThePinklimeade]

the Chinese also have Pinyin and zhuyin

which could be used like hangeul.

but they have alot of cultural pride which keeps them using the traditional chracters.

[herifuzhenguan3]

@ThePinklimeade It's not a cultural pride thing. neither Pinyin or Zhuyin could record Chinese language without serious ambiguousness and the decrease of reading speed. Because of the same reason, japanese still use Kanji instead of only using Kana.

[herifuzhenguan2]

Hangul is kind of amazing for Korean language, but that does not mean it is the best for all languages. The writing system is based on the language. Hangul could record the Korean language very well in most cases. However, it may or may not be true for other languages. Even in today's Korean, Hanja (Chinese Character) is needed sometimes to eliminate the ambiguousness.

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan2 You are confusing Hangul with the Korean language. Hangul was invented by King Sejong and his team of scholars. The Korean language certainly isn't the best language in the world but the Hangul characters are. Hangul is even being exported to some countries in Southeast Asia that don't have writing system. Try exporting Chinese characters for Southeast Asians to use as their writing system LOL!

[herifuzhenguan3]

@luv2sd You lack some commonsense of linguistics. Scripts are tools to record language. Different languages have different features, so are different scripts. We must relate to language itself to say if a kind of script is scientific. If one kind of script could well record all features of a certain language in most convenient way, like Hangul of Korean in most cases, then we can say hangul is scientific for Korean language. But that doesn't mean Hangul is good for every language. (part1)

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 You are still very confused. If you are not confused, then you are deliberately showing your jealousy because Chinese characters come nowhere close to simplicity and versatility of Hangul.

.

And I don't think you even know much about linguistics. You haven't used any linguistic term in your post.

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The Korean language existed far before Hangul was invented. Hangul was not just designed for the Korean language. It was designed by King Sejong and a group of top scientists.

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 ok then do you think Japanese characters or Chinese characters can be used to accurately and efficiently express English sounds? if you speak Chinese, write pronounciation symbols for this word: "refrigerator". let's see how "efficient" or "scientific" Chinese characters are.

[herifuzhenguan3]

@luv2sd God. You are really fanatic. As having said, scripts are designed for its own languages. Chinese characters are designed to record Chinese languages. it suits Chinese language very well. Similarly, Japanese kanji and kana for Japanese language. Neither Chinese characters nor Japanese kana can represent English very well. Hangul was invented to record Korean. It can amazingly record Korean languages in most cases. But it doesn't mean that it could record other languages very well. (1)

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 I will give you one good example - English alphabets WERE NOT developed for English alone. This fact singlehandedly disproves everything you say or believe in.

Read below article and you will learn the difference between a language and linguistic characters.

The Hangeul Alphabet Moves beyond the Korean Peninsula

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/­?p=1641

[herifuzhenguan3]

@luv2sd for instance, the English words "class" can't be perfectly transferred to Hangul because no consonant clusters, such as "cl" "gl" "cr", exits in Korean language so that Hangul can't represent them. It's basically because Hangul was initially invented for Korean. All Chinese languages have tonal systems. How can Hangul represent that? Japanese language almost only has open syllables. There are no consonant at the end of a word. Isn't it unnecessary to use Hangul to record japanese? (2)

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 you are in your own world. read another article and appreciate the power of Hangul

(Southeast Sulawesi Tribe Using Korean Alphabet to Preserve Native Tongue)

thejakartaglobe-dot-com/home/s­outheast-sulawesi-tribe-using-­korean-alphabet-to-preserve-na­tive-tongue/322636

[herifuzhenguan3]

@luv2sd Hangul is definitely an amazing invention of 世宗大王. It's very creative and suits Korean language very well. It may be also proper to some other languages. But it's totally an exaggeration to say "Hangeul is the best alphabet in the world that all languages dream of" or "It is the most scientific characters in the world".

[luv2sd]

@herifuzhenguan3 dude it's not the Koreans who said Hangul is the best. it's the western linguists who said that. watch the video again and look under the quote. you will see that the majority of the quotes were from book writers or linguistics professors from America or Europe.

[glitchmaster8000]

You might be right but even so Korean is the only language that uses that alphabet...case closed

[SMGJohn]

No, Cia-Cia adopted it in 2009

[omoshiroidayo]

ok, i have heard so often that korean is the most scientif writing o fall but why? i think that chinese and japanese is much more fascinating, hangeul is just some chinese sighn fragments, anyway it is so easy to learn (i started half a week ago and know can read everything but slowly in korean)

[janetGOREton]

@omoshiroidayo

The Japanese writing system is nearly identical to the Chinese Hanzi (Kanji), their other two writing scripts (Hiragana and Katakana) are highly inefficient phonetic alphabet that uses Chinese logograph fragments or desperate attempts to look like it. Chinese writing is also inefficient in that it requires you to memorise nearly 2000 characters, all of which with it's own unique sound. With Hangul you can use 24 of it's consonants and vowels and create the same number of sounds

[janetGOREton]

@omoshiroidayo

Additionally, the shapes of the the consontants g/k, n, s, m and ng are graphical representations of the speech organs used to pronounce them. Also the shapes of the the vowels are based on three elements: man (a vertical line), earth (a horizontal line) and heaven (a dot) but in modern Hangeul the heavenly dot has mutated into a short line. That to me is combining art and logic into one beautiful form, more fascinating than any other writing system I have studied.

[debbzzwashere]

@omoshiroidayo i totally disagree, chinese and japanese in my opinion, (IN MY OPINION) IS MORE, ..... LETS SEE, UNORGANIZED? srry it was in capsbut, anyways, all im trying to say is that korean has a mre organized and a very easy alphabet than chinese or japanese,

[tokee1234567]

@omoshiroidayo korean letters aren't derived from the chinese letters. katakana and hiragana's shape are mostly influenced from the chinese letters... I don't see how an asian person would look at korean and say that it looks like chinese letters unless they think that a square shape ㅁ, round shape ㅇ and a ㄹ shape (that's really about it) is from china or something..

[Khyrid]

Hangul is da BAWS

[viiietdude]

Well you get the point lol, English and French are not 100% phonetic scripts, and as much as many 2nd language learners of the two hate it, it still doesn't make things any much harder. Also, it would be nearly impossible to standardise a phonetic spelling for English. Historically, culturally and dialectally, English speakers are too diverse.

[viiietdude]

If English used a phonetic script, check this out:

If Inglish yoozd a fonetik skript, chek dhis aut.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

Actually the bottom one is cooler and easier.

[viiietdude]

But what about different dialects? In one particular dialect of English, it would be more of:

Ef English yoozd a fonetek skrept, chek dhes oot.

[skrodl]

ɪf ɪŋlɪʃ juzd ʌ fənɛtɪk skɹɪpt, tʃɛk ðɪs aut

[viiietdude]

Nice video 5/5 but I beg to differ on the matter of Hangeul being the "best" alphabet in the world. It may be one of the best looking alphabets out there but you would have to factor in its importance. The fact is that it is only officially used by 2 language groups! Korean and Cia-Cia. In comparison, the Latin alphabet and its derivatives are used officially by dozens if not hundreds of languages.

[viiietdude]

Not to mention the fact that the Latin alphabet allows for adaptation and every language using the Latin script has assigned different sound values to each letter.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

Latin ROCKS! And Arabic too. This comes 3rd and Crylic 4th.

[icefall1793]

@viiietdude The main reason why this happened is because korean was developed few years ago, while latin is much older. Also there are many other factors such as the Roman empire that forced latin into many countries, while korea used chinese for thousand of years before they created the korean. I'm korean and I'm proud our language is considered this way even though it is a language that comparing to latin and roots is just a newborn baby.

[vindeeze]

it is ridiculously easy to learn the vowels and consenants and be able to read words and sound them out, the hard part is just knowing what the words mean lol

[EboniYoYo]

i know! i can read anything in korean now, but i have no idea what they are talking about.

[icefall1793]

@vindeeze I know!, together with spanish korean is the easiest to learn, since they have only 1 sound for each letter,

[ifx1732]

Great video.

The beauty of this alphabet is its simplicity. It takes very little time to learn and with just basic vowels and consonants, thousands of syllables can be constructed. Words are spelled as they sound, and many different sounds are condensed into a small alphabet that is simple to write and read.

For those people complaining that it doesn't have some English sounds, you can say the same for English not having even half of the sounds you can make with this alphabet.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

I don't like it in English when they put "e"s at the end for no reson but Spanish & languages similar to it like Italian are the EASIEST. One letter per sounds. Easy to pronounce.

[viiietdude]

"For no reason"?

Allow me to demonstrate. The English language has only been around since around the year 450 AD. The history of the language may be divided roughly into 3 periods, the Old English period (450 AD - 1066), the Middle English period (1066 ~ 1500) and the Modern English period (1500+). English is a language belonging to the western branch of the Germanic language family meaning it is somehow related to German and Dutch.

[viiietdude]

For example, the verb 'shave' originates in the Old English period as 'sceafan' or 'scafan'. Since there wasn't yet a fully standardised English writing, different people spelt words differently, anyway 'sceafan/scafan' was then written as 'schafen/schaven' in Middle English. At this time it was pronounced something like 'shar-fen/shar-ven'. However, between 1450 and 1750 a process known as the Great Vowel Shift took place where the pronunciation of words like 'schaven' became 'shay-ven'

[viiietdude]

Modern English is a melting pot of languages in itself. You can see words from near and far, from Germanic (oversee) to French (survey) to Latin (supervise)...

It's actually a very fascinating history. I just hope you learnt something today XD.

[viiietdude]

Here's just a rough comparison of the three stages of English:

Old: Soþlice on þam dagum wæs geworden gebod fram þam casere augusto. þæt eall ymbehwyrft wære tomearcod.

Middle: Forsoþe it is don, in þo da3is a maundement wente out fro cesar august, þat al þe world shulde ben discriued.

Modern: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

Well this is kind of intesting. BUT YOU POST TOO MANY COMMENTS

[viiietdude]

lol why so many comments, fuse them into one :)

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

This I allready knew.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

Completly unrelated to my comment.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

That doesn't have to do ANYTHING about my coments. Some 'e's are useless such as composite. And what with one? Why is it pronounced won. And the t in listen, a in Cocoa and so MANY More examples. Two to and to? why is 2 two and pronounced too instead of tuo. to isnstead of toe.

[viiietdude]

As I said, English has evolved throughout time and has absorbed words from all over. Much of the spelling has remained the same since hundreds of years ago.

The e in composite is because the word was borrowed from French. The number one in OE is an and ME is on. It's to do with sound change.

[viiietdude]

The number two was originally pronounced "twa", a > o and just like many other words we never bothered to change the spelling. Hence, English has one of the most irregular spelling systems in the world. Same with French.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

French 2 is troi also pronounced twa.

[viiietdude]

No no, 2 in French is deux but pronounced 'der', 3 is trois but pronounced 'twa'.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

MY BAD

[viiietdude]

At the end of the day, one must realise that English, like French does not use 100% phonetic writing. English is around 80-85% regular if you learn rules for it. Not even Hangeul does.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

End of the day? it only 8:17 here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Though I just moved here from Orlando, Fl)

[viiietdude]

At least you have a brain lol, some of the people on youtube...seriously lol.

[icefall1793]

@ifx1732 The thing is... there is no languages that have all the sounds of every single language.... I don't get why people discuss that, there are obviously going to be some sounds in a laguage that other doesn't have.

[sjpetal]

you're soooooooooooooo right!

[nullpowww]

Hangeul is the ugliest alphabet in the world.

It irritates everyone..

[HPgroupie]

I actually did learn to read and write Hangeul in less than 10 days...no joke.

I love it!

[liujj312]

Hoho that was like some sh*t

how can those "windows frames" ever got to become alphabet, that really Prince Sejiong's talent right?