| Hancom (한글과컴퓨터) | |
| Type: | Public |
| Foundation: | Oct. 9th, 1990 (Listed on KOSDAQ: Sep. 24, 1996) |
| Location: | 10FL. Hancom Tower, 49, Daewangpangyo-ro 644 Beon-gil Sampyeong-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| Key People: | Byun, Sung-Jun, Kim, Yeon-Soo, CEO |
| Industry: | Computer software |
| Products: | Hangul Asianux Hangul Development Library Kit Hancom Read-on |
| Assets: | KRW 716.3 billion (as of June. 2023) |
Hancom (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.[4]
Hancom's Office Suite remains the company's main product. The suite is available in English and Korean.