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Time Language: easy to use, so that anyone in the world can share one common language.
Every symbol comes from 0-9, so kids and newcomers alike can pick it up at their own pace and have fun doing it.
A small, consistent set of number rules is all it takes — once you know them, reading and writing follow naturally.
The same system maps onto a unified sign form, so conversations can happen in sign language anywhere in the world.
English has become the de facto language of the 21st century, but learning it well still costs most people years of time and money. Learning Chinese well can be just as demanding.
If millions of people are already investing that much time into English or Chinese, that time and money adds up to a real cost for everyone.
Time Language exists so that cost doesn't have to be paid twice. Master a handful of simple greetings in about ten minutes, and you already have a way to talk to the rest of the world — go ahead, give it a try.
Trade a few words with someone you've never met, anywhere in the world — a short greeting can carry a whole conversation.
Amateur radio operators already use Time Language over the air for quick, friendly exchanges across borders.
People message across borders every day on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, Naver Line — millions of messages, all needing a common shorthand.
Time Language gives that shorthand a shared numeric key, so a greeting typed by anyone can be read by everyone.
Time Language traces back to 1974, when T.H. Kwon began sketching a way to represent everyday meaning using nothing but numbers — turning something as ordinary as counting into a shared shorthand anyone could learn.
English has become the working language of the 21st century, and by some measures that puts real pressure on everyone else to catch up — years of study, real cost, for a language that isn't their own.
Back then, even a foreign-language teacher visiting a local school found that grammar alone wasn't enough to really communicate — something simpler was needed underneath it.
Time Language was built on that idea: skip the years of grammar, keep a small set of numbers and symbols, and let anyone in the world pick up real greetings in minutes — a lighter, more creative way to close the distance between languages.
"I picked up Time Language over a few sessions and started sending friends short greetings right away. What stood out was how little of it needed explaining — a few numbers, a bit of context, and people just understood. It travels well between languages too, which is rare."
"It reminds me of writing to an old pen pal — except now it works with friends overseas who don't share my language. Learning the greetings felt like unlocking a small, friendly code the whole world already has the key to."
"What impresses me is how quickly something like this could spread. Esperanto took a century to reach the audience it has; with SNS and the internet doing the work now, a numeric common language could move a lot faster."
I have been the one to write it down.
Mankind may not have imagined it, but it inspired the work all the same.
I hold a small piece of humanity's history in the number "0."
What I made, I made from nothing but the wish to create something purely my own.
I built something no one had quite imagined before — and it, in turn, kept inspiring me.
Every symbol in Time Language comes from 0-9, so newcomers of any age can pick it up quickly and have fun learning it, at their own pace.
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest common language is here.