Hancom

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

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
- HanCell - spreadsheet program
- HanShow - presentation program
- HanWord (also called as Hangul-a.k.a. HWP)
- 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. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
^ "US District Court Rules GNU GPL is an Enforceable Contract". May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
^ "Licensing Artifex Products".
^ "South Korea Hancom Group Unveils Hancom Office 2020". PRWeb.

External links

Official website

[koreaittimes-1] Kate Jee-hyung Kim (January 30, 2012). "Hancom Takes Vision of Information Independence to the Globe". koreaittimes.com. Retrieved May 17, 2021.

[xdaDev-2] "US District Court Rules GNU GPL is an Enforceable Contract". May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2021.

[artifexLicensing-3] "Licensing Artifex Products".

[pdA1Y-4] "South Korea Hancom Group Unveils Hancom Office 2020". PRWeb.

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