Korean Job Discussion Forums

[chungbukdo]

My school uses a program called Hangeul 2007 to type up documents. I need to fill out these documents on my home computer sometimes. Google docs won't upload them and I've heard Microsoft Word (which I don't have anyway) can't read the files.

Is there anything compatible with that program which will read their files? I think the extension is .hwp

PS: For some reason I couldn't install the program onto my computer with the CD.

[eamo]

You should be able to install Hangeul 2007 on your English-language computer. I've done it a couple of times myself.

Just ask the 'IT guy' in your school (more than likely just a normal teacher who has been burdened with keeping the printers running!) for a copy and to maybe supervise while you try to install it. It can be done.

A lot of Koreans think that English-lang software can't be put on Korean-lang computers and vice-versa........its not true. Operating systems don't care what language the software is as long as inputting the script of that language has been enabled in Control Panel - Languages.

[blackjack]

The other option is to get them to save it as a .doc Can be done in hangul.

I hate that program

[ttompatz]

If you just need to read and not edit or read / copy / paste to word then you can download the free "hangul viewer" from HNC. I don't have the link handy, google it.

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[chungbukdo]

[eamo]

Maybe he gave you a 32-bit only version.......is your computer x64 OS?

A lot Koreans seem terrified of anything other than 32-bit XP.

I've installed Hangeul 2007 on a 32-bit laptop W7 and Hangeul Reader on a x64 W7 desktop.

[kprrok]

You could just do what I do. Any time a document needs typed and they have it in Hangeul, I print it out and then re-create the document form in Word so that any teachers following me don't have to worry about using that craptatsic program.

[blackjack]

[kprrok]

[CentralCali]

There's a free viewer/printer for the Hangul program.

[kprrok]

Maybe you didn't notice from my post that I HATE THAT CRAPTASTIC PROGRAM WITH A PASSION AND WILL NEVER INSTALL IT ON MY COMPUTER OR ANY COMPUTER I WORK ON B/C IT IS SO CRAPTASTIC.

There, understand now?

[CentralCali]

I understood. The viewer's not crappy, though. It's merely a viewer and printer. The Hangul program itself is, well, run through the dictionary for every negative adjective in every language on the planet and then you'll be approaching, perhaps, 1% of how awful the program is.

It took me a while, but I did manage to get the other teachers at my school to start saving documents in RTF so I can open it with OpenOffice. Even their ultra-nationalist piece of trash (obvious rip-off of MS Word) can manage to do that. IIRC, more than a few posters here follow the method of "It's not in *.doc or *.rtf, I'm not bothering with it" to get the Korean teachers to get out of their Borg-like lock-step.

By the way, why not have the boss simply do "save as" and select MS Word doc file? He doesn't have to print it and you don't have to retype the whole thing.

[samd]

I finally got Hangul 2007 off emule and I must say it's not too bad, and it's much easier than trying unsuccessfully for years to get colleagues to send me .doc files.

[eamo]

I've used Hangeul 2007 now and then.......it's not so bad.....just a Korean rip-off of MS Word.

It's the incompatibility that's the problem. I don't understand why Koreans feel they need their own word processing software when most other countries don't. Do the French or Italians have their own word processing software that's incompatible with MS and others?

I've heard it's widespread because the government offices are told to use it.....including the education department.

[blackjack]