* All lifestyles great and small Oct 21, 2009
Past designs have taken cues from zhuyin fuhao, the phonetic alphabet used by Taiwanese schoolchildren, pearl milk tea and the humble red-and-white striped plastic bags given out at night market stands and corner stores; one T-shirt had a long, thin pocket intended for a pair of reusable chopsticks. We are a Taiwanese company and we wanted to express that with our T-shirts, so we had to think of what is particular to Taiwan. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Teaching actors to talk the talk Sep 5, 2009
At Brown, he has time to teach his students the phonetic alphabet, a series of signs that signify different sounds. Once they have it memorized, the students can apply it to words to learn regional speech. (Boston Globe)
* Indonesian tribe to use Korean alphabet: scholar Aug 8, 2009
It is the first case of Hangeul, a phonetic alphabet, being used by a foreign society, Seoul National University professor Lee Ho-young said. Lee said the Cia-Cia tribe in Bau-Bau city on Buton island in southeast Sulawesi has adopted the script to transcribe its aboriginal language. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Small but memorable, Korean exhibit at Met delivers Mar 25, 2009
In 1443, in the reign of King Sejong, a committee of court scholars invented and made public, for the first time, a Korean phonetic alphabet and script called Hangul, ending the country's long dependence on Chinese as a written language. From that point, fulfilling a neo-Confucian ideal of universal education, reading and writing became common. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
