In our last episode of the series “Language as an Organism”, artistic researcher Minsook Kang tells the story of how Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, got imported to the Cia-Cia tribe in Indonesia. Minsook was about to go on a field trip to Indonesia in order to dive further into her research when the coronavirus hit, so follow this story as it unravels political and cultural questions, historical significance, media misrepresentation, and a few yet-to-be answered questions.

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