Hancom

{{Infobox company

| name = Hancom (한글과컴퓨터)

| type = Public ({{kosdaq|030520}})

| foundation = Oct. 9th, 1990 (Listed on KOSDAQ: Sep. 24, 1996)

| parent =

| location = 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

| industry = Computer software

| products = Hangul
Asianux
Hangul Development Library Kit
Hancom Read-on

| assets = KRW 716.3 billion (as of June. 2023)

| net_income =

| num_employees =

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.hancom.com}}

}}

Hancom Inc. (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.{{cite web |author=Kate Jee-hyung Kim |url=http://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=19539 |title=Hancom Takes Vision of Information Independence to the Globe |date=January 30, 2012 |publisher=koreaittimes.com |accessdate=May 17, 2021}} Established in 1990, the company created Hangul, a native word processing program for the Korean language. The name comes from Korea's native writing system, hangul.

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.xda-developers.com/us-district-court-rules-gnu-gpl-is-an-enforceable-contract/ |title=US District Court Rules GNU GPL is an Enforceable Contract |date=May 14, 2017 |accessdate=May 17, 2021}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://artifex.com/licensing/ |title=Licensing Artifex Products |date= |accessdate=}}

On May 27, 2020, Hancom Group announced the unveiling of the latest version of Hancom Office.{{cite web |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/hancom-group-unveils-hancom-office-2020-their-newly-feature-enhanced-office-productivity-suite-that-saves-up-to-60-the-cost-compared-to-ms-office-864992092.html |title= South Korea Hancom Group Unveils Hancom Office 2020 |publisher=PRWeb}}