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Earlier this week Korea’s largest producer of Office Automation software announced that they will support both Open XML and ODF in the next version of their product.

This is extremely significant for Korean users of Haansoft’s Hangul package, where as I understand it the number of users of Hangul outweighs users of any other office package.

You’ll find an English version of the announcement on ZDNet’s Korean site;

On Thursday 13, it announced that it planed to support not only ‘ODF’(Open Document Format), the standard of International Organization for Standardization (IOS), but also ‘Open XML’, promoted by ECMA International, in its next version of Hangul software. 

By supporting internationally recognized open type documentation standards in its new version of Office, Haansoft plans to cultivate its competitive power and lead the standardization of domestic office documentation.

There is substantial coverage of this in the Korean press, if you are interested in reading more then the following links will help. (in Korean)

Chosun, Money Today, ETNews, FNNews, ZDNet, DDaily, HeraldBiz, INews24 and eToday.