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by mattengi 4727 days ago
In Korea, almost all keyboard is just plain QWERTY keyboard with additional Hangul Printing.[0]

Right Alt key used as Hangul(Korean)/English toggle, right Ctrl key as Hanja.

When toggled to Hangul, only English characters are overridden by Hangul characters. All numbers, symbols are also same when you are in English typing mode.

Basically no additional key in there compared to QWERTY.

Is that complex and hard learning type in Hangul? Nope. Maybe 'Korean' is complex to learn, but 'Hangul' - I mean, script? character composition system? sort of that - is quite simple.[2]

Actually It's capable of implement more efficient input layout than English especially more restricted environment. Like basic cell phone key layout(E.161).[1]

There was a King, and He was really great hacker. Because he was a King, he grabbed bunch of smart guy all around country. ; ) Then push them working hard. (did I said he was King?) Therefore, invented many good one for country people. Today Korean has own quite good and expressive characters and he deserved quite good place.[3]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/j0Xk6oY.jpg

[1] http://bit.ly/11CF0mS

[2] http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=neraijel&logNo=110...

[3] http://i.imgur.com/69jkSXa.jpg