Company:Hancom
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| 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 | Byun,Sung-Jun, Kim,Yeon-Soo, CEO |
| Products | Hangul ThinkFree Office Asianux Hangul Development Library Kit Hancom Read-on |
| Total assets | KRW 716.3 billion (as of June. 2023) |
| Website | www |
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 Office
Hancom's Office Suite remains the company's main product. The suite is available in English and Korean.
List of products
Current products
- Hancom Office Suite
- 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 Docs
- Hancom Docs Converter
- Hancom Sign
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
- ↑ Kate Jee-hyung Kim (January 30, 2012). "Hancom Takes Vision of Information Independence to the Globe". koreaittimes.com. http://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=19539. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ↑ "US District Court Rules GNU GPL is an Enforceable Contract". May 14, 2017. https://www.xda-developers.com/us-district-court-rules-gnu-gpl-is-an-enforceable-contract/. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Licensing Artifex Products". http://artifex.com/licensing/.
- ↑ "South Korea Hancom Group Unveils Hancom Office 2020". www.prweb.com. https://www.prweb.com/releases/hancom_group_unveils_hancom_office_2020_their_newly_feature_enhanced_office_productivity_suite_that_saves_up_to_60_the_cost_compared_to_ms_office/prweb17145749.htm#.
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