Hancom has changed its corporate name from "Hangul and Computer (030520)" to "HANCOM" after 36 years. The move reflects the company's plan to leap forward as an agentic operating system (OS) company, following its transformation from a document-focused firm into an artificial intelligence (AI) company.
Hancom disclosed on the 2nd that it held a shareholders' meeting and approved a bylaw revision to change its corporate name to "HANCOM." Founded in 1989, Hancom has represented Korea's first generation of information technology (IT) companies, setting the standard for Korean-language documents with its homegrown word processor "Arae-a Hangul."
If the former name "Hangul and Computer" established the standard for Korean-language document processing, the new name is seen as embodying the company's identity of moving beyond documents into the fields of data and AI agents.
Kim Yeon-su, CEO of Hancom, said, "The name change is not a pledge for the future, but a confirmation of a transformation already achieved." He added, "On the foundation of assets built over 36 years, we have rebuilt Hancom as an AI company, and now we will use those assets as a weapon to open the sovereign agentic OS market and challenge the global standard."
