October 10th, 1446 is remembered as the day on which Hangul was introduced. However, owing to continued influence and presence of a powerful ruling class, it only really became the official language after 1945, when the Japanese who had colonized the country since 1910 (ending the Yi dynasty) were finally driven out of the peninsula.
John Walsh, Mahidol University, November 2003
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