Hancom
Hancom (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language.
| Company type | Public (KRX: 030520) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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. 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.
On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.
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