Open and fill Korean HWP forms without Hancom Office, then save them in the same format
Files open only inside this browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Korean universities, government offices and employers still send application forms as HWP files, the format of the Hangul word processor. On a Mac or a PC without Hancom Office you can at best view them, not fill them in. This tool reads the HWP file directly in your browser, lets you fill in the blanks, and saves it back in the same format — no install, no sign-up.
Drop the form file above and its tables and blanks appear on screen. Yellow cells were empty in the original. Fill them in and press “Save as HWP” to download a file in the same format. In HWP documents you can also add an ID photo or a handwritten signature, and change text size and line spacing per line.
Three: HWP, HWPX and Ichitaro (.jtd). HWP is the format Hangul has used since version 5.0 — text, fonts and tables are kept as separate pieces inside one container, each piece compressed. HWPX is the later format, an XML set inside a zip. Ichitaro files, used in Japan, sit in a container much like HWP's but keep their text uncompressed. The tool reads inside the file rather than trusting the extension, so a form with the wrong file name still opens.
The file is never rebuilt. The original is held whole, and only the cells you edited are written back in place. Anything you did not touch stays byte for byte identical, and parts the tool does not understand pass through untouched. That is why the fonts, margins, table borders and headers set in Hangul survive. Ten real application forms are run through open, edit, save and re-open automatically on every change.
You can fill empty cells, rewrite cells that already hold text, and tick check boxes from □ to ■. HWP documents also take an ID photo and a handwritten signature — draw the signature with a mouse or a fingertip and it goes in as an image with a transparent background, which saves printing the form, signing it and scanning it back. Text size and line spacing can be set line by line.
A résumé or an application form carries a name, a date of birth, an address, a phone number and a photograph on a single sheet. Asking you to hand that to an unknown server would defeat the point of the tool. Reading, editing and saving all finish inside the browser you are using now, so the file is never transmitted and never stored anywhere. Once the page has loaded you can go offline and it still works.
Password-protected or DRM-locked documents are not opened. The on-screen layout is an approximation, so lines may sit slightly differently, but the saved file opens in Hangul with its original layout. HWPX and Ichitaro documents support text only for now, and Ichitaro lines can hold only as many characters as their blank spaces.
No. Reading, editing and saving all happen inside the browser you are using right now, so personal documents like résumés and applications stay on your device.
Yes. The original file structure is kept and only the changed cells are rewritten, so it opens in Hancom Office and the Hangul viewer.
Yes. You can fill in the blanks of an Ichitaro (.jtd) form and save it in the same format. To keep the file’s line-position data intact, each line can hold only as many characters as it had blank spaces.
A browser is all it needs. Open the same address on macOS, Linux, iPhone or Android. Nothing has to be installed, which also means it works on a locked-down office PC where you cannot add software.
The on-screen view approximates the original layout, so line breaks and fonts may sit differently. The saved file keeps the original structure and changes only the cells you edited, so it opens in Hangul with its own layout. Line-position values are recalculated by Hangul and by viewers when the file is opened.
HWP edits are written back into the space the original occupied, so saving stops if the new content no longer fits. Filling in text almost never reaches that limit — a form with all 94 blanks filled still fit. It can happen when several large photos are added; reducing their size or number resolves it.
They are not opened. Documents locked with a password or with DRM cannot be read, so the tool only explains why. Remove the protection in Hangul and load the file again.
Ten forms that are actually distributed by employers and schools (nine HWP, one HWPX) are checked automatically from opening through re-opening the saved file. Saved files were also opened by hand in Naver Whale's document viewer and compared side by side with the originals — including one form with 94 blanks filled, where all 33 cells were confirmed in place.