Sejong the Great of Korea commented, in 1443, that using Chinese characters for Korean was “like trying to fit a square handle into a round hole”.
A running gag is that he usually describes the consultancy process with a metaphor that leads to an inadvertent insult to himself (for example: “Imagine you are square pegs and we are round holes. Try to think of me as a round hole”).
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