Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE INVENTOR OF THE KOREAN ALPHABET -- 3. THE INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF THE CORRECT SOUNDS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE PEOPLE -- 4. THE PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE INVENTION OF THE KOREAN ALPHABET -- 5. GRAPHICAL INGENUITY IN THE KOREAN WRITING SYSTEM: WITH NEW REFERENCE TO CALLIGRAPHY -- 6. THE VOWEL SYSTEM OF THE KOREAN ALPHABET AND KOREAN READINGS OF CHINESE CHARACTERS -- 7. THE INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET AND THE HISTORY OF THE KOREAN LANGUAGE -- 8. THE STRUCTURE OF PHONOLOGICAL UNITS IN HAN'GǓL -- 9. THE PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS REFLECTED IN THE KOREAN WRITING SYSTEM -- 10. ORTHOGRAPHIC DIVERGENCE IN SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA: TOWARD A UNIFIED SPELLING SYSTEM -- 11. EXPERIMENTATION WITH HAN'GǓL IN RUSSIA AND THE USSR, 1914-1937 -- 12. COMMENTARY -- APPENDIX l:A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE KOREAN ALPHABET -- APPENDIX 2: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HUNMIN CHONG'UM AND HUNMIN CHONG'UM HAERYE -- APPENDIX 3: PHOTOGRAPHS OF A PAGE OF A NORTH KOREAN NEWSPAPER AND A PAGE OF A SOUTH KOREAN NEWSPAPER -- APPENDIX 4: COMPARISON OF ROMANIZATION SYSTEMS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX