Choe Sejin

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Choe.

Choe Sejin

Hangul	최세진
Hanja	崔世珍
Revised Romanization	Choe Se(-)jin
McCune-Reischauer	Ch'oe Sejin

Choe Sejin (1473–1542) was a Korean linguist, educator, and a proponent of hangul. His courtesy name was Gongseo (공서; 公瑞).

Choe devised the modern South Korean order of the hangul letters, and assigned names to the letters. His most famous book on hangul is the Hunmong Jahoe (훈몽자회; 訓蒙字會 "Collection of Characters for Training the Unenlightened (= Kids)", 1527).

Choe was an official interpreter in the Korean embassies in Beijing, and so he also documented colloquial northern Chinese languages (Haner).