KEMI Tools

HWP Viewer — Open Hangul Files Online

Open .hwp and .hwpx files on a computer without Hancom Office, on a Mac, or on a phone. Paragraphs, tables, images and character styles are laid out page by page, with zoom, text copy and print-to-PDF. The document opens only inside this browser and is never sent anywhere.

Drop a Hangul file (.hwp / .hwpx) here

Or click to choose — the document is opened inside this browser and never stored.

How to use

Drop a .hwp or .hwpx file into the box above, or click to choose one. On a phone, pick it from your Files app or messenger downloads.
Pages shows the paper layout, Reflow fits text to the screen width, and Text only shows plain text. Use −/+ and Fit width to zoom.
Copy text puts the whole body on the clipboard, Save .txt downloads it, and Print / PDF prints or saves a PDF. You can also select part of the text and copy it directly.

Why HWP files rarely open outside Hancom Office

HWP is the native format of Hancom's word processor “Hangul”. Korean government offices, schools and public institutions exchange most of their documents and forms in it, so in Korea it works as a de-facto business standard — yet Word, Notepad, macOS Preview and phone apps can't read it.

The HWP 5.0 format (used since 2002) stores several streams — document info, body sections, embedded images — inside an OLE compound file (the same container as legacy .doc/.xls), compresses them, and writes Hancom-specific records. Hancom published the specification in 2010, but there are hundreds of record types and they grow with each release, so third-party support is rarely complete.

HWPX is the open successor. It follows the Korean national standard KS X 6101 (OWPML) and is really a ZIP archive: Contents/header.xml holds fonts and styles, Contents/section0.xml holds the body, and the BinData folder holds images. Because it is readable XML, other software handles it far more easily.

What this viewer shows — and what it doesn't

Shown — paragraphs with alignment and line spacing; font size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and color; tables with merged cells, borders, shading and vertical alignment; JPG/PNG/GIF/BMP images; text boxes; footnotes and endnotes; paper size and margins (landscape included).
Approximated — page breaks (measured and split by paper height; long tables split at row boundaries), fonts (substituted when not installed), equations (shown as equation-editor script).
Not shown — headers, footers and page numbers; drawing shapes; charts; OLE objects; WMF/EMF images; multi-column layout; WordArt; tracked changes.

It's built for quickly checking a document you received, copying its text and printing a reasonable copy. When exact appearance matters (tenders, official submissions), confirm with Hancom Office or the free Hancom Office Viewer.

Privacy — your file never leaves this device

Hangul documents often contain names, resident registration numbers and bank details. Instead of sending the file elsewhere for conversion, a parser running in your browser reads it directly on this device. Content and file name are never transmitted; layout and printing happen on this page. Site-wide usage statistics (tool use counts) and ad scripts run separately and never access the document.

FAQ

Is my file uploaded?

No. Your browser reads the file and draws it on screen. Neither the content nor the file name is sent anywhere, and it's gone from memory when you close the page. The site only counts, anonymously, that the tool was used.

It looks slightly different from Hancom Office.

This viewer reads the document structure (paragraphs, tables, images, character styles) and lays it out again as a web page. Hancom's typesetting engine and font metrics differ, so line and page breaks can move, and headers/footers, drawing shapes, charts, WordArt and tracked changes are not shown. Equations appear as their equation script. For exact output, check with the free Hancom Office Viewer.

Some HWP files won't open.

Distribution-locked (copy/print-restricted) and password-protected documents are encrypted and can't be opened. Legacy HWP 3.0 files from the 1990s aren't supported either. Re-saving them as a normal HWP or HWPX in Hancom Office fixes it. For other errors, the Text only view often still shows the content.

The fonts look different.

Korean fonts such as Hamchorom Batang aren't available on the web, so they're used if installed on your computer and replaced with similar fonts (e.g. Malgun Gothic) otherwise. Size, weight, color and underline come from the original.

Can I save it as PDF?

Press Print / PDF and choose Save as PDF as the destination. It saves the pages as laid out here, so for documents where exact appearance matters, exporting PDF from Hancom Office is more accurate.

Does it work on phones?

Yes. On a phone, Reflow mode re-wraps text to the screen width for easy reading. Very large documents (tens of MB, many high-resolution images) may be slow depending on device memory.