Write your name in Hangeul,
or choose a Korean name with meaning.
Make it a keepsake, with your own hands.
훈민정음(訓民正音) 언해 · The beginning of Hangeul
WHY HANGEUL · 왜 한글인가
말소리를 담기 위해
만들어진 글자.
“나랏말ᄊᆞ미 中國에 달아
文字와로 서르 ᄉᆞᄆᆞᆺ디 아니ᄒᆞᆯᄊᆡ
이런 젼ᄎᆞ로 어린 百姓이 니르고져 호ᇙ 배 이셔도
ᄆᆞᄎᆞᆷ내 제 뜨들 시러 펴디 몯ᄒᆞᇙ 노미 하니라
내 이ᄅᆞᆯ 爲ᄒᆞ야 어엿비 너겨
새로 스믈여듧 字ᄅᆞᆯ ᄆᆡᇰᄀᆞ노니
사ᄅᆞᆷ마다 ᄒᆡᅇᅧ 수ᄫᅵ 니겨 날로 ᄡᅮ메 便安킈 ᄒᆞ고져 ᄒᆞᇙ ᄯᆞᄅᆞ미니라.”— 훈민정음(訓民正音) 언해 서문“Because the speech of this country differs from that of China, it does not fit Chinese characters.” 세종대왕 King Sejong began with a human problem: people had words to express, but no writing system shaped for their language.
Names from around the world begin as sounds before they become letters. BARAM KOREA listens to those sounds and shows how they can be written in Hangeul—with care for pronunciation, language, and regional difference.
한글은 백성이 쉽게 익혀 자신의 말소리를 적을 수 있도록 만든 글자입니다. BARAM KOREA는 서로 다른 언어에서 태어난 이름의 소리를 듣고, 그 소리가 한글로 어떻게 표현되는지 보여줍니다.
Further reading: 김정진 (Kim Jeong-jin), 10대를 위한 훈민정음 해례본 수업 (Lessons on the Hunminjeongeum Haerye for Teens)국립국어원 (National Institute of Korean Language): 훈민정음 해례본의 겉과 속 (Inside and Out of the Hunminjeongeum Haerye)
Discover 훈민정음 Hunminjeongeum (訓民正音), the design of Hangeul →HOPE · WISH · WIND
BARAM KOREA began with hope.
Then we learned that every creation also carries a customer's wish, while the wind carries a small piece of Korea into the world.
We make more than keepsakes. We make small places for memory: a name newly seen in Hangeul, a familiar color, a story that makes someone want to return.
“Every product we create carries a little piece of Korea—and a little piece of someone's wish.”
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
FIND YOUR HANGEUL
CREATE A KOREAN NAME
SHARE YOUR KOREA
A LETTER FOR WHAT COMES NEXT
OUR PROMISE
Your wishes shape our next creation. We treat every name, pronunciation, and memory with care—because what is small to the world may be deeply personal to someone.