The Hunminjeongeum Society (Korean: 훈민정음학회), sometimes called the "Hunminjeongeum Research Institute" in English-language newspapers, is a private organization in Seoul dedicated to the propagation of Hangul to all the unwritten languages of the world. The society was founded by Lee Ki-nam, a retired real-estate agent, in 2007, after she had failed to bring hangul to the Tungusic Oroqen of Heilongjiang, China; the Tibeto-Burman Chepang of Nepal; and the Tibeto-Burman Lahu of Chiang Mai, Thailand; she attributed these failures to a reliance on Korean Christian missionaries in those countries, whose primary focus was not linguistics or literacy.