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<P>To avoid the hypercorrected Romanization of Korean personal names even
in the present system, I would like to remind that one may keep the
same family name as his father: Kim, Park, etc. The new system
allows to use the old spelling of personal names, names of company and public
institutions from the beginning.</P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: #000000; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; FONT-FAMILY: '한양신명조'; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">"Even
'kimchi, taekwondo' and all place names were excluded originally. However,
when the National Academy of the Korean Language (NAKL) published
<Romanization Reference for Korean Place Names and Cultural Terms> as a
monograph (417 pages) on July 20 in 2000, they added an exception to allow
'kimchi, taekwondo' in addition to the normative form 'gimchi, taegwondo' and
provided their condition that they may be used only in necessary cases of
brand names or international relation. NAKL could not but publish this thick
book of usage mainly because they excluded place names and cultural terms from
'general acceptance'." (from <STRONG>Sang-Oak Lee</STRONG>'s article in
<EM>Korea Journal</EM> in 2000)</SPAN></P>
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<br><STRONG>Sang-Oak Lee,</STRONG> Prof. to the Dep't of
Korean, Seoul Nat'l Univ.</P><BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">--- Original Message ---<br><b>From : </b> "rupert"<rupert@aks.ac.kr><br><b>To : </b> "Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws"<Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br><b>Date : </b> 2004/12/02 목요일 오전 11:07:36<br><b>Subject : </b> [KS] Korean language transliteration system<br><br>Not sure about the US, but despite initial statements of rejection by various people and organisations, there has been a quiet yet real shift towards the new system in South Korea. And not only in official press; some of my students now write their own names as Gim or Bak etc.
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<BR>Rupert Atkinson
<BR>AKS
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