The Overseas Koreans Foundation will team up with local software firm Hancom to provide educational support to Korean language schools around the world.

A foundation official said Wednesday the two sides signed an agreement under which Hancom will donate its Korean writing software, the Hancom Office NEO, to some two-thousand schools worldwide that teach the Korean alphabet "hangeul." 

The company also will offer Hancom Office classes to teachers from overseas Korean language schools invited by the foundation, and cooperate in expanding Korean language education to overseas Koreans.

President of the Overseas Koreans Foundation Cho Kyu-hyung emphasized that many schools around the globe will benefit from the word processing software.

Executive Director at Hancom, Lee Won-pil, said the agreement will better promote hangeul, which he regarded as the best of all Korean cultural heritages, to Koreans abroad. He said his firm wants to help ethnic Koreans learn the language more easily and effectively.