[KS] two formal questions - Japanese/Korean

[Frank Hoffmann]

Many thanks for all your interesting and informed replies! That is much 
appreciated.

The summary (*for my own purposes*) is:
- if quoting TITLES (of books or articles) for Japanese I use no spaces 
if the author/publisher has no spaces there, while for Korean I do 
insert spaces, even if the original (e.g. in case of older 
publications) has none
- as for Japanese personal name: I will not use any spaces (in spite of 
more and more Japanese websites and also publishers doing exactly that, 
also in the official ISBN record registrations)

Regarding Stefan Knoob's notes -- also very much appreciated: yes, that 
is understood, but please consider that (a) my inquiry was ONLY about 
spacing in TITLES and PERSONAL NAMES, no more than that. 

And (b), you sure anticipated that I would respond to your somewhat 
loaded entrée ::::)

QUOTE:
> As you are so unfortunately mixing up questions regarding Japanese 
> and Korean practices, and all in one breath, one is indeed tempted to 
> blow your warnings in the wind and embark on a long discourse about 
> assertion of cultural difference and (perceived or real) vestiges of 
> colonial domination.

Well, okay, it was a bibliographic style question that relates to 
orthographic rules in both countries. Had I asked (but here I know the 
answer) how to capitalize TITLES in American English and in British 
English, would you then have said the same, because part of North 
America was a British colony, and would you have brought in issues of 
assertions of cultural difference? (The capitalization rules are 
different in both countries.) **Asking** about rules for spacing in 
both countries/languages "in one breath" does not indicate anything 
about asserting cultural difference or similarities -- does it? 

Furthermore, you wrote:
> As an aside, while writing groups such as 漢字의研究 together was not 
> too unusual in mixed script, Hangul groups such as 한자의연구 have 
> not been written together for a long time, if ever!

That all depends of the category of texts (e.g. in many advertisements 
in newspapers Han'gül would be written without spaces until at least 
the 1950s, if not longer). And in the 19th and earlier 20th century 
*all* variations existed, as there were no clear orthographic (and 
spacing) rules then -- see below.
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Again many thanks!
Frank