Hangul - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The Haerye (“HEH-r’yeh”) commentary helps explain how to use this system, whose creation is commemorated by a national holiday on October 9. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this system said to be easy enough to understand that even a stupid man could learn how to use it in ten days.

ANSWER: Hangul [or Hangeul; or Chosongeul; accept Korean alphabet or Korean script; prompt on Korean; prompt on alphabet or script]

[10e] Hangul was created to replace the use of Chinese characters in Korea by Sejong the Great, a leader of this Korean dynasty that fell in 1910 after a Japanese invasion.

ANSWER: Joseon dynasty [or Choson dynasty; or Great Joseon State]

[10h] During the 16th century, the use of Hangul was banned by the “tyrant king” Yeonsangun (“YUN-sahn-goon”), who initiated the sahwa, or literati purges, against this group. This neo-Confucian faction opposed the Hungu faction under King Sejo.

ANSWER: Sarim [or Saarim; accept “forest of scholars” faction]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Purdue	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Northwestern A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
UCSD	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	UCF C	10	10	0	20
UCF B	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
UW B	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UBC	UW A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	TAMU	10	10	0	20
ASU	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Haverford A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Case Western A	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Case Western B	Michigan State	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	0	0
Ohio State B	Carnegie Mellon A	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Winona State	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
LSE	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Sheffield	10	10	0	20
Cambridge E	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Durham	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Oxford C	10	10	0	20