Korean manuscript paper (원고지)
Wongoji (원고지) is the Korean counterpart of Japanese genko yoshi — a grid of squares, one syllable block to a square, used for school composition and for submitting manuscripts.
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Two hundred squares to the sheet
The standard wongoji sheet is 200 squares, laid out as twenty columns of ten. That number is not decorative: Korean publishing still quotes manuscript length in 매, sheets of 200 squares, in the same way English-language publishing quotes words. A short story of 80매 is 16,000 squares, and because every space and mark takes a square, the count is exact rather than approximate.
One block per square, spaces included
Hangul is written in syllable blocks, and each block occupies one square regardless of how many letters it contains — 강 and 아 take up exactly the same space. Spaces between words take a square of their own, and so does each punctuation mark. That uniformity is what makes the sheet countable, and it is the first thing that surprises learners coming from an alphabet.
Horizontal now, vertical historically
Modern Korean runs left to right in horizontal lines, and wongoji is printed and used that way. Older texts, and some formal calligraphy, run in vertical columns from the right, the same as classical Chinese and Japanese. If you are practising the traditional form, turn the sheet and work down the columns starting at the right-hand edge.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.