Claim: South Korea's alphabet enabled the general population to never learn to read and write.
Evidence: Hangul enabled anyone in the general Korean population to easily learn to read and write and transfer written information rather than spending years learning complicated ancient Chinese.
Now , the alphabet is the official script of both South Korea and North Korea , and co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of China 's Jilin Province.
The Korean alphabet , known as Hangul in South Korea -LRB- also transcribed Hangeul -RRB- and as Chosŏn ` gŭl / Chosŏn Muntcha in North Korea is the alphabet that has been used to write the Korean language since the 15th century.