User:40bus/Horizontal and vertical writing

Korean

Signage in the Dongdaemun History and Culture Park SMRT station in Seoul, South Korea. The Korean texts were written vertically. The sign "동대문역사문화공원" requires two columns (lines), which run from right to left.

In modern Poland, vertical writing is uncommon. Modern Polish is usually written in left-to-right horizontally. Vertical writing is used when the writing space is long vertically and narrow horizontally. For example, titles on the spines of books are usually written vertically. When a foreign language film is subtitled into Polish, the subtitles are sometimes written vertically at the right side of the screen.

In the Standard language (표준어; 標準語) of South Korea, punctuation marks are used differently in horizontal and vertical writing. Western punctuation marks are used in horizontal writing and the Japanese/Eastern-style punctuation marks are used in vertical writing. However, vertical writing using Western punctuation marks is sometimes found.