[Pay08]

> the de-facto document format are crappy hancom formats

What's hancom?

[mparkms]

Awful Korean-developed MS Office clone.

edit: for more context, it was initially adopted because it had better support for Korean language features, but now it serves basically no purpose other than be a pain in the ass for anyone who has to deal with their proprietary, incompatible with everything file formats.

[jibal]

A web search will give you a faster and better answer than you will get by asking here.

[Pay08]

Apparently not, since most of the results I get (that are in English) are about a lawsuit they lost for violating the AGPL.

[jibal]

First hit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancom