Korean spacing: MSN Encarta
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For centuries, Koreans combined the syllables into sentences without spaces to separate words, and they wrote sentences vertically, starting from the top right-hand corner of the page. Spaces between words began to appear in 1896. In the mid-20th century, Western-style writing in horizontal lines, starting from the top left and using Western-style punctuation marks, became the norm in North Korea and gained favor in South Korea.