The history of calligraphy in Korea is very long. Prior to the post-war republican period, very little calligraphy of merit was done in hangul, the Korean national script. Scribes, both judicial and civil, and the educated classes traditionally used Chinese script, most often official Ming-style scripts in writing. Calligraphy does occur in Korean painting which is a cojoined by also separate subject. Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Korea (한국) is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the west and Russia to the north. ... Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The Ming Dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; Pinyin: míng cháo) was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, though claims to the Ming throne (now collectively called the Southern Ming) survived until 1662. ... Korean painting includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans on all surfaces. ...

Rubbings of stele in Korea have given historically an archive of Korean calligraphy styles going back as far as the sixth century Silla era. Silla (also denoted as Shilla) was one of the three kingdoms of ancient Korea. ...

Artists in Korea used broader, less shaped brushes with thicker ink and chose thicker brush-strokes for writing, which makes identifying even Chinese ideograms by Korean hands from the Joseon Dynasty relatively simple. An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an image or text. ... A Chinese character. ... The Joseon Dynasty (alternatively, Choson or Chosun) is usually preceded with the title Great. ...

See also

• Korean art
• Korean culture
• List of Korea-related topics

Korean art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practised in Korea or by Korean artists or performers. ... The traditional culture of Korea is shared by South Korea and North Korea, but there are regional differences. ... This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ...

External links

• Newspaper article with visuals on Korean calligraphy (http://kn.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/01/13/200101130043.asp)

• Useful General introduction despite dark background colour (http://library.thinkquest.org/12865/mray/kor2.htm)