As an exercise in Virtual History, I wish to ask the what-if question of what if Sejong and his heir Munjong were allowed to push their political program of ‘Universal Literacy’ for all Koreans of the 15thCentury? As Zizek points out in his chapter “The Future Anteiur in Art History”, such an exercise in Virtual History Writing can bring out new insights and longue duree historical perspectives on some historical event such as that surrounds Sejong’s unprecedented Language Project of the early 15th Century. Having laid the grounds for the necessary and sufficient technological conditions for Universal Literarcy for his Yi-Dynasty Korean subjects on the par with the similar stages that was arrived at by the Western Europeans with the invention of the first movable printing technology by Gutenberg, if he was allowed to carry on with his Universal Literacy Project, the subsequent world-historical development might have been different. There’ s no doubt that Sejong and Munjong fully intended to push for the Universal Literacy. Where’s the historical evidence? Ironically, the evidence is to be found in the content of Choi Manli’s letter of protest against Sejong and Munjong’s announce dintention to make Hangeul as the “Hun-Min-Jeong-Eum”, as THE RIGHT AND CORRECT WRITTEN LANGUAGE FOR HIS PEOPLE. That is tantamount to declaring it as the national(written) language. Choi Manli voiced his concern: “In that event, any average Korean people would be able to study the Canonical Texts of the Confucius and of the Neo Confucians ages like ChuHis in Korean translation without first studying the Chinese Writing System and take Civil Service Exams. The implication is clear: Choi’s main concern is the Empowerment of the ordinary Koreans with no Chinese Education through Universal Literacy on the bases of the knowledge of Hangeul alone. Was Choi going ahead of himself when in fact had no such intention? That is not plausible! Choi and his fellow Neo-confucian scholar-officials had good reasons for waging such a Protest-campaign against the Powers that be of Korean Kingdom then. This way of reading the historical events surrounding Hangeul project enable us to do an entirely different, alternative historical interpretation s of such subsequent major historical events as the Murder of Kim Jong seo, of the failed Coup plotted by the group of ‘Sa-Yook-Shin’ and the forceful dethronin g of Danjong. If asking one simple ‘What-If’ question harvests so many unexpected new historical insights and alternative interpretations, well then is this not proof enough that Virtual History, in its scenario analyses based upon alternatives and counterfactual a powerful tools of historical scholarship? Sejong, Gutenberg, alphabet, movable type-set, Cultural capital, universal literacy