Busan Education Office to Release Two Free AI Hangul Fonts Featuring Students’ and Teachers’ Handwriting

[Financial News] The Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education said on the 8th that it will unveil two “Busan Education Hangul Day” fonts featuring students’ and teachers’ handwriting on the 9th, marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Hangul Day, and distribute them for free use by anyone. It is the first metropolitan or provincial education office in the country to officially release fonts created with AI from students’ and teachers’ handwriting.

The two AI fonts being unveiled are “Busan Education Dahamkke Goeun,” created from the student handwriting selected as the top entry in a handwriting contest, and “Ongeulip Beomjun Handwriting,” based on the writing of a current teacher who has been writing handwritten letters to parents for 11 years.
Last August, the handwriting of Jang Go-eun, a first-year student at Samseong Girls’ High School, was selected as the top entry in a handwriting contest for students in the Busan area and turned into the Goeun font using AI font-generation technology. The AI learned distinctive features of the student’s handwriting, including the stroke thickness and slant of each character and the spacing between characters, to create the font. It is said to be a high-quality typeface that retains the student’s individual character while also being suitable for a wide range of document and design work.
The Beomjun font was created based on the handwriting of Choi Beom-jun, a Korean language teacher at Haksan Girls’ Middle School. Since taking up his first post in 2016, Teacher Choi has written monthly letters to the parents of his homeroom students for 11 years. Since 2022, he has been writing and sending the letters using an AI font created from his handwriting. The city education office said it included the handwriting font in this release to share with more people the significance of Teacher Choi’s sustained communication with students and parents.
The city education office also released a video on its official YouTube channel, “Busan Education TV,” featuring the stories of student Jang Go-eun and teacher Choi Beom-jun, whose handwriting inspired the two fonts. The video introduces the sentiments the two have put into their handwriting and the process of creating the fonts.
Anyone can download the two fonts for free from the city education office’s official blog.
The city education office plans to make active use of the two fonts in its promotional materials and elsewhere to share stories from the education field with the public.
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