2 file types use the .hwp file extension.

What is an HWP file?

An HWP file may be a plain text document written using Hangul, the Korean alphabet. However, this kind of HWP file is uncommon, as the .hwp extension is now more commonly used for Hanword Documents.

How to open an HWP file

How to convert an HWP file

Category: Text Files

Hanword Document

An HWP file may also be a document created by Hancom Hanword, a Korean word processing application. HWP files typically contain text written using Hangul, the Korean alphabet. They may also contain graphics and document formatting information.

Hanword, formerly known as Hangul Word Processor, is part of the Hancom Office suite. The Hancom Office suite is akin to Microsoft Office, and Hanword is akin to Microsoft Word. Users who need to write documents in Korean use Hanword to create HWP files.

You're most likely to encounter an HWP file while interacting with a South Korean person or organization. For example, some South Korean government agencies use documents saved as HWP files.

NOTE: Hanword is included in only the Korean version of Hancom Office.

You can open any HWP file in Hancom Hanword (multiplatform), Hancom Office Viewer (iOS, Android), Polaris Office Web Hangul (Web), or Cloud HWP Viewer (Web). You can open HWP files created by Hangul Word Processor '97 and earlier versions in LibreOffice Writer (multiplatform), OpenOffice Writer (multiplatform), and Planamesa NeoOffice (Mac).

You can use Microsoft's free Hanword HWP Document Converter for Microsoft Word to convert HWP files to .DOCX files. You can use Cloud HWP Viewer to save an HWP file as a .ZIP file that includes an .HTML version of the file's contents.

If you are comfortable using a Korean language program, you can use Hancom Hanword to convert HWP files to the following formats:

Programs that open HWP files

Updated: June 2, 2022