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Line 56: === Korea === Chinese calligraphy appeared in Korea at around 2nd or 3rd century AD. Korea also used Chinese characters (called ''[[hanja]]'' in [[Korean language\|Korean]]) until the invention of the Korean alphabet, ''[[hangul]]'', in 1443.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Choi\|first=Yearn-hong\|date=2016\|title=Choe Chi-won, great Tang and Silla poet\|work=The Korean Times\|url=~~http~~https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2016/07/142_208963.html\|access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref> Even then, many calligraphers did not choose to use the newly created ''hangul'' writing system and continued to write calligraphy and its various styles using Chinese characters.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Brown\|first=Ju\|title=China, Japan, Korea: Culture and customs\|date=2006\|publisher=BookSurge\|others=John Brown\|isbn=1-4196-4893-4\|___location=North Charleston, South Carolina\|oclc=162136010}}</ref> In this environment, semi cursive script started seeing use in Korea during the [[Joseon dynasty]].<ref>{{cite web\|access-date=2021-07-30\|title=Categories of calligraphy\|url=https://swmuseum.suwon.go.kr/eng/html/02exhibit_02_04.jsp\|website=swmuseum.suwon.go.kr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|access-date=2021-07-30\|title=Collection of Calligraphic Works by Successive Kings from Seonjo to Sukjong – Kings of Joseon (Seonjo~Sukjong)\|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/collection-of-calligraphic-works-by-successive-kings-from-seonjo-to-sukjong/5QE0w581sbMB3A\|work=[[Jangseogak]]\|publisher=[[Academy of Korean Studies]]\|via=Google Arts & Culture}}</ref> == Characteristics == Line 71: === Stroke linking === One of the characteristics of semi-cursive script is the joining of consecutive strokes. To execute this, one must write a character in an uninterrupted manner and only stop the brush movement when required. In some scenarios, the strokes may not be visibly linked, but it is possible to grasp the direction in which each stroke is drawn.<ref name=":1" /> === Stroke merging and character simplification ===