DISCRIPTION
◎Product name: Hangul Alphabet Board Game [KORECUBE]
Functional game for educational purposes to improve the Korean vocabulary skills while playing for the elementary school students (and their parents), foreigners in and outside of Korea and multicultural families. Available in the board game and app game versions.
 

◎ KORECUBE : Distinctive Features
KORECUBE board game is an eco-friendly product made from a thick cardboard certified with the KC Mark, a safe product certificate for children, and patent is pending. Benchmarking the popular board game 'Rummikub,' it is easy and fun to play. In addition, variables such as a px-layer 's vocabulary range, use of joker, and random distribution of Hangul character cards add more fun to the gameplay. The app version of KORECUBE is registered in the Google Play Store (free) and Apple App Store ($ 1.09). It will be a good way to learn Korean, its culture and the excellence in the Korean language easily while having fun playing.

◎ Learn by playing. Have fun while studying.
There is a Hangul board game already in the market, which is titled as . It is a board game with plastic tile pieces. It's simple to play but focuses more on learning rather than having fun. It can also be pricey for many parents (costs almost 40,000 won).
The most distinctive difference of KORECUBE is that you can improve your Korean vocabulary skills on your own without feeling the pressure of 'learning' as you play along with your family and friends. It is recommended for everyone from kindergartners who recently started learning the Hangul alphabet to the first graders who have recently finished learning the alphabets and their parents.

◎ Board game as teaching material for learning Korean
Hangul consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels. With KORECUBE, px-layers can make all the desired words by combining the specified consonants and vowels that are made optimized for the game. For example, a double consonant or a composite vowel can be created by referring to the basic consonants and vowels.
Better yet, there are enough numbers of Korean alphabet cards including 66 basic consonants and 46 basic vowels, so KORECUBE can be used as a training material for learning the final consonant at the end of a Korean syllable, word studies, let alone the board game. Also includes the instructions on associating it with the elementary school curriculum.

FEATURES
◎ Functions
⦁A word-making game based on Hangul's clustering principle
⦁ The one who takes 15 random cars and creates a word by using all the cards wins!
⦁ Dokkebi the goblin character card (universal consonant, universal vowel, joker) to increase interest in the game
⦁ Game manual that provides various usage methods for the Korean learners
⦁ Gamification effect which improves the Korean vocabulary skills just by playing


◎Usage
⦁ Educational functional game that can improve Korean vocabulary skill through word game.
⦁ Board game includes 120 consonant/vowel cards and Dokkebi cards, which makes it possible to apply varied rules so that it can be effectively adopted as a teaching material.
⦁ Unlike the existing Hangul board games, KORECUBE is released as an app game (Android, iOS) to play on smartphones.

SPECIFICATION
◎ KORECUBE Sets: Included Items  
⦁ 66 consonant cards: 14 basic Korean consonants / optimized number for board games
⦁ 46 vowel cards: 10 basic Korean vowels / optimized number for board games
⦁ 6 Dokkebi cards: 2 universal consonants (Kkebijak), 2 universal vowels (Kkebimong), 2 jokers (Kkebibul)
⦁ 2 Korean Dictionary Views: Check the Korean dictionary during gameplay
⦁ 4 screens: A character screen that can hide your cars words and words
⦁ 1 storage box: A box to keep the consonant/vowel cards and the screens at the end of the game
⦁ Game manual: In addition to the basic game rules, it contains various application methods and application games linked to elementary school curriculums.

◎Specifications
 Storage box: 240 * 168 * 50mm / Consonant/vowel card: 35 * 45 * 2mm
Shade: 298 * 200mm / Manual: 148 * 210mm

OTHERS
◎ Korea's traditional and familiar Dokkebi in a card
KORECUBE board game includes 6 Dokkebi cards (jokers). Depending on the type, it can be used instead of consonants or vowels. As it was developed with the familiar characters from the Korean tradition (Kkebijak, Kkebibul, Kkebimong), the interest and fun to play the game is further enhanced.

◎ Durable cards made of environment-friendly cardboard
The consonant/vowel cards in KORECUBE features an eco-friendly cardboard. Coated back and forth to enhance durability, it comes in the tile form with the rounded edges to make it safe for use by children. Obtained the KC certification (FITI Testing & Research Institute), a product safety certificate for children.


◎ Hangul and Korean education market status
⦁The functional games market amounts to 166.6 billion won (2014, Korea Creative Content Agency), and, among them, the functional game for educational purpose accounts for a majority of the market by 63%.
⦁The entire market for functional games worldwide (including online) amounts to 10 trillion won. The domestic functional games market is 600 billion won (2013, Game White Paper).
⦁ Increase in the number of King Sejong Institute overseas with 143 areas as of 2016.
⦁ Testees for the Test Of Proficiency In Korean (TOPIK) tend to increase every year in and outside of Korea.