

The HWP binary format specification has been published online free by Hancom on June 29, 2010. Users are also allowed to save their documents in MS Office formats including. This is a free utility that can be downloaded from the developer’s website. Hangul was intended in 2009 to gain support for reading and writing of Office Open XML and OpenDocument files. Users without the Hangul Word Processing application are able to read HWP files through the Hancom Office Suite 2010 SE Viewer.


Any HWP files created with Hangul 97 or before can be opened with OpenOffice. Text documents created in Hangul are saved with the extension HWP. However, files created with later editions of Hangul, including Hangul Wordian, Hangul 2002, Hangul 2005 and Hangul 2007 cannot be opened with OpenOffice or LibreOffice, due to the major changes in the document structure. Hangul (aka Hangul Word Processor or HWP) is a word processing application from Haansoft, and is very popular in South Korea, mainly due to the way it has been designed for the Korean written language. HWP files, up to the versions created with Hangul '97, can be opened with or LibreOffice. Some newer versions of HWP may not be supported. You can open a HWP file to read from your computer or your Google Drive. You can download the converted HTML files. This also provides HWP to HTML format conveting. This app makes viewing HWP file quick and easy. This HWP Viewer allows you to view a HWP file without having HWP Word Processor installed on the machine. Complex texts, tables, images might be not shown or be displayed incorrectly. Note that rendering is still in early stage. This HWP Viewer allows you to view a HWP file. This is the document backend for Hangul Word Processor format backend for Evince document viewer.
