Hanterm uses 'JOHAB-hyung' HANGUL font. You can find johab hangul font in cair.kaist.ac.kr First, you should get hangul font. And then transfer the .bdf files to .pcf by % bdftopcf xxx.bdf > xxx.pcf And then copy the .pcf files to a directory. Let's assume the name of the directory is /student/yyy/fonts % cp *.pcf /student/yyy/fonts % cd /student/yyy/fonts % mkfontdir Then, you can find fonts.dir file generated. Then, % xset fp+ /student/yyy/fonts If the name of the hangul font is -kaist-... , % hanterm -hfn -kaist-... will work. For your convenience, insert following in .Xdefaults Hanterm*hangulFont: -kaist-.. Hanterm*font: 8x13bold (Any font you prefer..) insert following in .xinitrc and .xsession xset fp+ /student/yyy/font