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Image 1 — Letter strokes guidance for left-handers at school
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Letter strokes guidance for left-handers at school

I went to school late 70s, and at that time there was no guidance on letter strokes (neither for right-handers or left-handers). Our teacher was right-handed, so she was using the right-handed strokes on the board. I had to figure out myself how to write: tilt paper 40 degrees to the right, hold pen below writing line and figure out the letter strokes. I write most horizontal lines right-to-left (with only a few exceptions, like Z) and a lot of circles clockwise, when possible.

Apparently, these days there is guidance both for right-handers and left-handers. I realised that I am mostly aligned with it, apart from the circles. Strangely enough, while the initial guidance for left-handers was to write circles clockwise, they have changed it in recent years to anti-clockwise. But they are stressing that this is just guidance (both for right-handers and left-handers) and there is no "correct" way. Each kid is free to draw the letters as they prefer.

I am curious if such guidance exists in other countries and other alphabets / writing systems?

u/geso101 — 13 hours ago
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Official handwriting guidance for left handers

I recently started learning Hangul, but all the videos I watched teach right handed strokes. Is there any official guidance for left handers please? In my language, there is official guidance in school these days. So, I was hoping that something similar could exist for Korean.

For info, left handers draw horizontal lines right-to-left, and circles (mostly) clockwise. Although I have some ideas how to write the Korean consonants/vowels, I would prefer to learn the official way, if available.

EDIT: Thanks for your answers everyone. I have to say that I am a bit flabbergasted by some of the answers. Also, just to clarify that I am using left-hand stroke in all alphabets I know, and I intend to continue to do so. The question was not whether I should use right-handed stroke. The question was whether there is official guidance for left-handed stroke. From the answers, it appears that there isn't any.

In any case, this was an interesting discussion and thanks again for taking the time to answer.

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