The ultimate guide to HWP files – the mid-2014 edition

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Few things are worsethan a file you can’t open. Even though I’m no longer in Korea, I stillcome across the occasional HWP that needs to be opened or worked with.

(For anyone coming across this post and wondering ‘what’s an HWP?’, it’s a file format for the Hangul Word Processing program. It’s a Microsoft Word-like program that’s extremely common in...