Hancom (KOSDAQ: HAANSOFT) is an office suite software developer in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the

Korean language Korean ( South Korean: , ''hangugeo''; North Korean: , ''chosŏnmal'') is the native language for about 80 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (geographic ...

. In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for violating the GNU GPL license as a consequence of using the source code of PostScript and PDF 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 open source 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.

Product List

* Hancom Office Suite ** HanCell - spreadsheet program ** HanShow - presentation program ** HanWord (also called as

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The le ...

-a.k.a. HWP) ** Hancom Office Hanword ** Hancom Office Hanword Viewer ** Hancom Office 2020 International Version ** Hancom Space ** Hancom Docs Converter

Discontinued Products

*Documen * HanArum - office products * HanGrim -

vector Vector most often refers to: *Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction *Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematic ...

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

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program * NetHangul

References

External links

* {{Official website 1990 establishments in South Korea Office suites for Windows Software companies established in 1990 South Korean brands