
This useless, incompetent company gets its life support from South Korean tax payers’ money. Hancom company should have been gone a long time ago. I hate being forced to use this trash.Ī garbage app made by a incompetent company Like YD_h, the only plausible explanation for this company's existence is corruption. They have have ripped off MS Office in their applications over the years. I have to open this viewer, hoping it does not crash, and paste it into Pages or Word to see documents. They sell the editable suite for Mac in stores here in Korea, but it's 60,000 for a purchase that probably doesn't even work. The company makes bizarre decisions in their iOS viewer that makes the application seem like it is from an entirely different OS, while the Hancom viewer does not seem to work on the Mac. The HWP format does not work with other software, only reliable works on Windows, even though they sell Hancom on iOS (which I paid for and own for work and correspondence from Korean friends) and Hancom viewer. There are Korean people who like HanWord on the PC, but I have never seen anyone use HanCell or HanShow unless they were forced to do so. I realize Hancom software *can* display Korean fonts better than MS Office, etc. As the reviewer YD_h, I cannot see any other reason this company can exist beyond corruption. Also, in elementary public schools they are eliminating MS Office in favor of this even on PCs. On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.As far as I know, this is the only way to view HWP files on a Mac. Alternatively, they could have purchased a license. Under the Affero GPL terms, Hancom would be required to open source their code.

Ghostscript is dual licensed under both the Affero GPL License, or a commercial license. 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. Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. Hancom (KOSDAQ: HAANSOFT) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.
