There’s got to be a better way to do this. Someone please enlighten me.

Modern Korean is written in 한글 (Hangul), which uses a syllabic alphabet. It includes spaces between words, unlike Chinese or Japanese, which means that it’s possible to have meaningful spellchecking.

So of course one day I decided I wanted to configure Vim to support spellchecking Hangul. Unfortunately, there’s no file ko.utf-8.spl at ftp.vim.org, and in a cursory search I couldn’t find an.

On the other hand, the hunspell tool does have a Korean dictionary, and there’s a PKGFILE provided for ARCH, so by running pikaur -S hunspell-ko I was able to obtain the files

• /usr/share/hunspell/ko_KR.aff
• /usr/share/hunspell/ko_KR.dic.

In theory, if you then run the Vim command

:mkspell /tmp/ko /usr/share/hunspell/ko_KR

then Vim would create the file …