Sedžong tul 세종틀 Se-jong pattern

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Number of movements:

24

Number of attacs:	11
Number of hand attacs:	9
Number of foot attacs:	2

Number of blocks:	11
Number of hand blocks:	11
Number of foot blocks:	0

Number of ready stances:	2
Diagram:

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Ready posture: moa čunbi sogi B moa junbi sogi B 모아준비서기 close ready stance B

Ready posture: moa čunbi sogi B moa junbi sogi B 모아준비서기 close ready stance B

Interpretation

Se-jong is named after the greatest Korean king, Se-jong, who invented the Korean alphabet in 1443, and was also a noted meteorologist. The diagram represents the king, while the 24 movements refer to the 24 letters of the Korean alphabet.

Sejong the Great (May 7, 1450 - April 8, 1450) was the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty. He ascended the throne in 1418. As a prince he excelled in various studies, and therefore King Taejong favored him over his two older sons. His brother Yangnyeong preferred to hunt and engage in other leisure activities, so Taejong removed him as heir in 1418. The other brother, Hyoryeong, became a monk.

Sajong appointed people from all sorts of social classes to the government and to civil servants, a revolutionary step for his time. He governed neo-Confucianism in his governance and encouraged the people to also follow Confucius´ teachings. As a result, neo-Confucianism became the social norm of Korea at that time.

In foreign policy, he concluded several agreements with both China and Japan, which increased trade.

He was effective in military planning. He created military regulations to strengthen the security of the kingdom, supported the development of Korean military technology, tested various types of guns and fire arrows, as well as the use of gunpowder. In May 1419, King Sejong (under the direction of his father) went to the island of Tsushima to remove the Japanese pirates who operated there, which was done in September. In the north, expanded the territory of today´s Manchuria.

Sajong is also credited with great merit in science. For farmers, he wrote a handbook containing information on different cultivation techniques in different regions. He noticed the intelligent Yang Yeong Sil, who came from the lower social class and gave him government status and funding (despite protests by officials who said such a person could not stand among the nobles). Yang created significant designs for water and sundials, rain gauges and armillary balls. Sejong astronomers also created a calendar with Seoul as the prime meridian (until then, a Chinese dependent on the location of the Chinese capital was used).

Sajong also dealt with the field of humanism. In 1426, he introduced 100 days of maternity leave for women, to which in 1434 he also added a month of paternity leave. In 1430 he was going to carry out tax reforms. Before their introduction, he conducted a nationwide public opinion survey, which involved more than 170,000 people. Approximately 57% were in favor of approving the proposed reform. In the agricultural reforms he introduced a tax on farmers, which was dependent on the size of the crop. Farmers could therefore take better care of their crops and less of tax quotas.

King Sejong greatly influenced Korean history by creating Hangul - a phonetic writing system for the Korean language. Up to this point, people have written using Chinese characters. Given the fundamental differences between Korean and Chinese and the large number of Chinese characters, it was almost impossible for people in the lower classes to learn to write. Sejong created the Korean alphabet with 28 characters (4 are now obsolete), with the aim of having the Koreans from all classes read and write. Characters for consonants are based on a simplified chart patterns created human speech organs (mouth, tongue, teeth) in creating a sound, vowels are a combination of dots lines representing heaven (circular dot), country (horizontal line) and human (vertical line).

Sedjong dies from the effects of diabetes in 1450. Expecting his ill son Munjong not to live long, he asked Scholar Hall to watch out for his grandson Danjong. Munjong died two years after his accession to the throne, and Danjong came to the throne at the age of 12. Sejong´s second son, Sejo, seized the throne for himself in 1455, and the whole kingdom was in power struggles and ended the period of political stability that King Sejong had established.

Pattern is practised by the V. Degree holder and above.