Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jonbowman88]

Seriously though frickin hangul 2005 is such a terrible program it crashes all the time and never works right it ridiculous. I've installed it on several computers and each one has its own bugs. I can't understand how Koreans use this program. Am i the only one who hates this? I dont even really use it just to open and print stuff, maybe to edit some stuff KOrean teachers made. Is 2007 any better? I'd like to get my hands on a copy.

sorry just venting.

[lifeinkorea]

I spent like a nanosecond with some Korean program (probably same one you are mentioning) and stopped using it. I put an address where I put my stuff in English for the school to have access to 24 hours and left it at that.

There is absolutely no point in forcing yourself to use a program that is only useful in one country.

[jonbowman88]

sorry this was suppose to go in the tech forum... dont know how to change it now

[taesookim]

if your using 2005 you can download a free program called openoffice from openoffice.org its not compatible with 2007 but if your trying to open files from 2005 itll work. open office works exactly like microsoft office and is compatible with all office stuff

[inthewild]

Hansoft does indeed suck bad. So does MS Office but openoffice makes it all worth it.

[blackjack]

[Mr. Pink]

IMO the only thing worse than Hangul is Word Perfect. A lot of school boards use Word Perfect (I thought this program died in the 90s) because it is so cheap.

Face it, MS Office is the most widely used, and because of that, it has a higher budget on programming to be superior to anything else out there.

[Johnny Conqueroo]

In the late '90s, Microsoft was positioned to buy-out Hansoft who was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy due to rampant piracy of the software - the Korean government being one of the worst offenders with virtually no legitimate copies on any of its thousands and thousands of office computers (perhaps one legit cvopy in each office. Maybe).

This acquisition would have given the Hansoft developers some new capital and allow MS to serve the market for Hangul software by abandoning the crappy HWP code and incorporating Hangul characters it into MS Word.

Public outcry was so great however against big, bad Microsoft swallowing up poor little Hansoft and dominating the Hangul word processing market, that the KN government stepped in as a matter of national pride, and bailed out Hansoft.

They then introduced a new version called HWP 815 (named in honor of Korean independence day - August 15th) which was still awful, but seemed to assuage Korean hurt pride. I guess HWP is still around.

I think that Hansoft (now spelt Haansoft...?) was disappointed to lose the chance for a sell-out. But I guess hubris can fuel something like this for a pretty long time.

[jonbowman88]

hehe interesting info