Hancom

Hancom (한글과컴퓨터)Company type| Public (KRX: 030520)

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Industry| Computer software
Founded| Oct. 9th, 1990 (Listed on KOSDAQ: Sep. 24, 1996)
Headquarters| 10FL. Hancom Tower, 49, Daewangpangyo-ro 644 Beon-gil Sampyeong-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Key people

| Byun, Sung-Jun, Kim, Yeon-Soo, CEO
Products| Hangul
Asianux
Hangul Development Library Kit
Hancom Read-on
Total assets| KRW 716.3 billion (as of June. 2023)
Website| www.hancom.com

Hancom Inc. (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.[1] Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. The name comes from Korea's native writing system, hangul.

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.[2] 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.[3]

On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.[4]

## Hancom Office

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Main article: Hancom Office

Former logo Former logo (~2016)

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

## List of products

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### Current products

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* Hancom Office Suite
* Hangul \- 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

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* Documen
* HanArum - office products
* HanGrim - vector drawing program
* Hangul Print - printing program
* HanMaek - Hangul I/O program
* HanTeX - Hangul TeX program
* NetHangul

## References

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1. ^ Kate Jee-hyung Kim (January 30, 2012). "Hancom Takes Vision of Information Independence to the Globe". koreaittimes.com. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
2. ^ "US District Court Rules GNU GPL is an Enforceable Contract". May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
3. ^ "Licensing Artifex Products".
4. ^ "South Korea Hancom Group Unveils Hancom Office 2020". PRWeb.

## External links

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* Official website