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Hancom

South Korean software company

Field	Value
name	Hancom (한글과컴퓨터)
logo	한컴로고 2023.png
type	Public ()
foundation	Oct. 9th, 1990 (Listed on KOSDAQ: Sep. 24, 1996)
location	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
industry	Computer software
products	Hangul
Asianux
Hangul Development Library Kit
Hancom Read-on
assets	KRW 681.9 billion (Consolidated. 2024)
homepage

Asianux Hangul Development Library Kit Hancom Read-on

Hancom Inc. (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea. 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. 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

Main article: Hancom Office

Former logo (~2016)

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
- 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

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

References

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

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