What is a .HWP file?
HWP is the document format of Hancom’s Hangul, ubiquitous in South Korean offices and government.
- Did you know
- HWP is the default document format across much of South Korea’s public sector.
- HWP is built on Microsoft’s Compound File Binary format, storing multiple data streams within one file much like an old-style file system.
- Hangul 1.0 was released in 1989 by a Seoul National University computer club, and Hancom published the HWP binary specification publicly in 2010.
- What Analyser reads
- Open documents, ebooks and publishing files beyond Office: comic books (CBZ/CBT with ComicInfo + first-page preview; CBR/CB7 identified), Microsoft XPS, FictionBook FB3, iBooks, Scrivener, Visio VSDX, R Markdown/Quarto, RTFD, WARC/MAFF web archives, TeX DVI, legacy Hangul HWP, and WordPerfect/QuarkXPress/PageMaker identification.
- Depth of analysis
- .HWP is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .HWP file
- Drag a .HWP file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.