韓文喺發明諺文之前，對民族語言嘅記載工具只得漢字。因此韓文對漢字係有訓讀傳統嘅，不過應用就冇日本嘅漢文訓讀噉廣。例子：
Before the invention of Hangul, Hangul had only Chinese characters as a tool for recording the national language. Therefore, Hangul has a tradition of reading Chinese characters, but its application is not as extensive as that of Japan's Hangul. Example: