About Me: Hey, Call me 'Uncle Hangul'!
The Maker Who Believes in Language Acquisition
만들기를 좋아하는 디자이너, 언어 습득을 말하다
Hey, just call me "Uncle Hangul."
I'm a creator and designer who gets a genuine thrill from conceiving, planning, and bringing things to life. My career has been a journey of making things move and take shape: I started with 3D character design, moved into animation and visual effects (VFX), expanded into product design and publishing, and these days, I'm building app services. To me, creating is a thrilling adventure.
But alongside my passion for design, I've always had a deep fascination with languages.
A while back, I tried teaching Korean online via AmazingTalker. It was a short-lived experiment, but it left me with a profound sense of frustration. I quickly realized the limits of traditional language teaching. I didn't want my students to just memorize grammar rules; I wanted them to naturally absorb the language. I wanted real acquisition, not just learning.
Driven by this question, I decided to dive deeper. I went back to school and earned my official certification as a Korean Language Teacher.
That journey brings me here. This space isn't a boring digital classroom with blackboards and vocabulary lists. It's a creative playground where a designer uses visual contexts, everyday contrasts, and cultural nuances to help you just "pick up" Korean naturally—the same way you'd appreciate a good piece of design.
Welcome aboard. Let's stop studying, and start acquiring.
Brand & spelling
- Both refer to the same brand — spacing and capitalization can vary. Uncle Hangul is the form we use in sentences; Uncle hangul is the same name written casually. The website is unclehangul.com and the social handle is @unclehangul. Korean speakers often say 한글아저씨.
- Both romanize the Korean writing system 한글. Hangeul follows South Korea's Revised Romanization (official in many textbooks and government materials). Hangul follows an older McCune–Reischauer-style spelling that many learners and brands still use — including Uncle Hangul. Neither is "wrong"; they are different romanization systems for the same script. On this site we write Hangul in user-facing text and recognize Hangeul in search metadata so both spellings find us.
- 한글 is Hangul — the Korean alphabet. 아저씨 (ajeossi) is a friendly Korean term for an older man, like "uncle" in English (not a family title, but a warm, respectful nickname). Uncle Hangul is a certified Korean teacher and designer who teaches through visual context rather than grammar drills.