Hancom
Type | Public (KRX: 030520) |
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Industry | Computer software |
Founded | Oct. 9th, 1990 (Listed on KOSDAQ: Sep. 24, 1996) |
Headquarters | 10FL. Hancom Tower, 49, Daewangpangyo-ro 644 Beon-gil Sampyeong-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
Key people | Lee, Hong Goo, CEO[1] Lee, Chan Jin, Founder[2] Baek, Jong-Jin , Co-founder Kim, Hyeong Jip, Co-founder Woo, Won Sik, Co-founder |
Products | Hangul ThinkFree Office Asianux Hangul Development Library Kit Hancom Read-on |
Total assets | KRW 12.2 billion (as of dec. 2010) |
Website | www |
Hancom (KOSDAQ: HAANSOFT) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.[3] Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language.
In May 2017 Hancom lost a lawsuit in US Federal Court for violating the GNU GPL license as a consequence of using the source code of PostScript and PDF interpreter Ghostscript.[4] Ghostscript is dual licensed under both the Affero GPL License, or a commercial license. Under the Affero GPL terms, Hancom would be required to open source their code. Alternatively, they could have purchased a license.[5]
On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.[6]
Hancom Office[]
Hancom's Office Suite remains the company's main product. The suite is available in English and Korean.
Product List[]
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- HanCell - spreadsheet program
- HanShow - presentation program
- HanWord (also called as Hangul-a.k.a. HWP)
- Hancom Office Hanword
- Hancom Office Hanword Viewer
- Hancom Office 2020 International Version
- Hancom Space
- Hancom Docs Converter
Discontinued Products[]
- Documen
- HanArum - office products
- HanGrim - vector drawing program
- Hangul Print - printing program
- HanMaek - Hangul I/O program
- HanTeX - Hangul TeX program
- NetHangul
References[]
- ^ 김일숙,황승희,김현식,박종천,김정환 (2012-08-12). "SBS CNBC : 경제가 쉬워집니다" (in Korean). Sbscnbc.sbs.co.kr. Retrieved 2013-05-13.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ "Chan-Jin Lee". Forbes. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
- ^ Kate Jee-hyung Kim (January 30, 2012). "Hancom Takes Vision of Information Independence to the Globe". koreaittimes.com. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ^ "US District Court Rules GNU GPL is an Enforceable Contract". May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ^ "Licensing Artifex Products".
- ^ "South Korea Hancom Group Unveils Hancom Office 2020". www.prweb.com.
External links[]
- Official website(in English and Korean)
- 1990 establishments in South Korea
- Office suites for Windows
- Software companies established in 1990
- South Korean brands