Hancom Inc. (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an

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software developer in

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. Established in 1990, the company created

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, a native word processing program for the

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. The name comes from Korea's native writing system,

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. In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for violating the GNU GPL license as a consequence of using the

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and

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interpreter Ghostscript. Ghostscript is dual licensed under both the Affero GPL License, or a commercial license. Under the Affero GPL terms, Hancom would be required to

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their code. Alternatively, they could have purchased a license. On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.

Hancom Office

Hancom's Office Suite remains the company's main product. The suite is available in English and Korean.

List of products

Current products

* Hancom Office Suite **

- word processor ** HanWord - word processor compatible with Word ** HanCell - spreadsheet program ** HanShow - presentation program ** Hancom Office Hanword ** Hancom Office Hanword Viewer ** Hancom Office 2020 International Version ** Hancom Docs ** Hancom Docs Converter ** Hancom Sign

Discontinued products

*Documen * HanArum - office products * HanGrim -

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drawing program * Hangul Print - printing program * HanMaek - Hangul I/O program * HanTeX - Hangul

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program * NetHangul

References

External links

* {{Official website Companies based in Gyeonggi Province South Korean companies established in 1990 Office suites for Windows Software companies established in 1990 South Korean brands