Does Korean use hanging punctuation at line start/end?

[xfq]

Does Korean use hanging punctuation at line start/end?

See clreq and jlreq.

[gregoryhouse0515]

No, I checked the link, but as a Korean this is an unfamiliar practice. I have never seen it in any official publications or anywhere else.

[hellotunamayo]

Yes, Korean uses hanging punctuation. See the reference below.

ISBN: 978.89.7059.970.0
Title: 사물에 수작 부리기
Author: 이광석 외 (Kwang-seok Lee et al.)
Publisher: 안그라픽스 (Ahn Graphics)
Year: 2018

[xfq]

Thank you, @hellotunamayo ! I have a few questions:

1. How common is hanging punctuation in Korean?
2. Which punctuation marks are usually hung?
3. Are there any examples of hanging punctuation in vertical writing mode?

If you don't know the answers to all the questions, answering some of them is OK.

[hellotunamayo]

1. Many Korean designers commonly use hanging punctuation.
2. This includes double quotation marks, single quotation marks, double sickle marks (겹낫표)『 』, single sickle marks (홑낫표)｢ ｣, and so on.
3. Typically, Korean is not written vertically in common usage.

[quiple]

In Korea, hanging punctuation is not common in general publications such as novels and essays, but is seen in design-oriented publications such as posters and magazines.

[anawhj]

1. How common is hanging punctuation in Korean?

Unlike Japanese or Simplified Chinese, Korean text does not use hanging punctuation in standard horizontal layout, even though rare exceptions exist, they are not standard practice. To adhering to line-start prohibition rules (avoiding periods or commas at the start of a line), Korean adopts the approach of wrapping the preceding character to the next line rather than hanging the punctuation mark in the margin. It has been applied to Hangul 2025 and MS Office Word programs, so the Web is also required to follow it.

2. Which punctuation marks are usually hung?

Not applicable, as Korean does not use hanging punctuation.

3. Are there any examples of hanging punctuation in vertical writing mode?

The vertical writing mode is nonexistent in modern Korea (2000~).

[xfq]

Let me try to summarize:

1. hanging punctuation is used by Korean designers, but not common, and not seen in official publications;
2. to adhere to line-start prohibition rules (avoiding periods/commas at the start of a line), Korean text wraps the preceding character to the next line;
3. vertical writing is effectively non-existent in modern Korean usage (post-2000).

[anawhj]

Great summary!

[anawhj]

Is there anything else that needs to be addressed before we close this issue?

[r12a]

Once we have published the updated version of KLReq, i plan to add some text to summarise this information. I'd like to leave the issue open to remind me to do that.