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Hanbyul Jo looks at map labels written in Hangul<\/a>, the Korean alphabet, with a deep dive into whether it\u2019s better to display the characters vertically, as in top-to-bottom like traditional Chinese, in certain circumstances. \u201cI grew up consuming Hangul in a dominantly horizontal way. The idea that the readability of Hangul can be improved when written vertically was so foreign to me, whether it\u2019s actually true or not.\u201d [Lat \u00d7 Long<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hanbyul Jo looks at map labels written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, with a deep dive into whether it\u2019s better to display the characters vertically, as in top-to-bottom like traditional Chinese, in certain circumstances. \u201cI… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1729,1728,1461,1727],"class_list":["post-1838605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-hangul","tag-korean","tag-languages","tag-map-labels","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1843389,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/07\/the-map-men-visit-the-ordnance-survey-and-also-wrote-a-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":1838605,"position":0},"title":"The Map Men Visit the Ordnance Survey, and Also Wrote a Book","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 July 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Map Men Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones visit the Ordnance Survey in a (sponsored) set of two (vertically aligned short) videos: part one, part two. 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