For nearly six centuries, Hangeul has acted as a contextual backdrop of Korean culture. As part of everyday life in Korea over that time, it has evolved in constantly variable ways. These days, ...

The designers drew from four consonants and three vowels to create the pictograms. PyeongChang 2018 also borrowed from the unique Korean language in its official Olympic and Paralympic logos.

Its letters are composed of a combination of lines and circles only, combined to form 12,000-odd phonemes. Its three main vowels (ㆍ, ㅡ, ㅣ) represent the sky, the earth and man.