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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: µ¸¿ò">Dear KS list members:
<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">As
I said earlier, I have more messages which will help people to understand the
situation in pre-2000 Rominization. I mentioned a </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: µ¸¿ò">behind-the-scene
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">story
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: µ¸¿ò">that the change would
have been motivated, even in part, by one man's career ambitions.</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here is another story of personal
factors at play in the development of the 2000 Romanization.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: µ¸¿ò">One of the original
instigators who gave rise to review of virtual MR system used since 1984 was
Prof. Kim Bok-mun [or Pongmun]. He claims he sold his apartment to support his
research and publications on Romanization. His version of Romanization is (more
or less phonetically-oriented transliteration) based on English spelling: a >
ah</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²">, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>? > ur, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>o > oh,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>u> oo, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>? > uh, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>i > ee, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>e > eh, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>?i > ui, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>k > <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">g/k</B> (initial & intervocalic/final),
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>t > <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">d/t</B>,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>p > <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">b/p</B>, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ch > j/t, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>k¡¯ > k, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>t¡¯ > t, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>p¡¯ > p, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ch¡¯ > ch/t,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ss > ts/t,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>tch > tj, etc. Thus his name in his
version is <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Geem Bokmoon</I> but he added
a special provision for his family name to keep <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kim</I> while changing many others¡¯ family
names: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kang</I> > <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Gahng, Kuk</I> > <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Gook</I> (not <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cook</I> but GI slang!), etc.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²">He has achieved only
three changes of k> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">g/k</B> (initial
& intervocalic/final), <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>t >
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">d/t</B>,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and p > <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">b/p </B>in </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">2000
Rominization although he instigated it by many petitions to the Blue House and
Korean Assembly. In this process of fighting he earned about $8,000 by
impeaching a poor young officer in the National Academy of Korean Language. I
heard this amount of penalty was sentenced because that young scholar posted a
false charge on his website just for a couple of days. A wrong accusation
related to Romanization cost a lot. Can you imagine any other country like this
besides <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region> where some
people (not the whole public, fortunately--we have too many linguists
considering our size of population) are very keen to linguistic affairs and
where IT is highly developed? </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: µ¸¿ò"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 1.5pt 0cm; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">During
the days AKSE was held in last July, I heard some good responses to my earlier
posting [please see attachment], in particular Dr. Bouchez commented the
following. ¡°Neither in schools nor in the society, Koreans did not teach and
study MR system. This was a part of reason to weaken MR system.¡± D¡¯accord (I
agree). Many Koreans had regarded MR system was for foreigners whereas they
believe 2000 Romanization is more accessible to Koreans.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 1.5pt 0cm; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Sang-Oak
Lee<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ±¼¸²; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">Seoul
National Univ.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<br><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> "sangoak@snu.ac.kr"<sangoak@snu.ac.kr><br><b>To : </b> "Korean Studies Discussion List"<Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br><b>Date : </b> 2005/07/06 ¼ö¿äÀÏ ¿ÀÀü 6:18:04<br><b>Subject : </b> Re: [KS] The Romanization Discussion<br><br>
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<P>Dear KS list members: </P>
<P> </P>
<P>My apologies for not replying sooner although Professor Ledyard encouraged us
more talks. Since last June 30, I have traveled from Manchester, through
Bradford, Leeds, York, Hull, Nottingham and now settled down in Sheffield where
AKSE is held for this whole week. </P>
<P><BR>Indeed I have more messages which will help people to understand the
situation in pre-2000 Rominization. However, the access to computers here is not
convenient, and it is better to write them after returning back to Seoul in
early August because my travel will be extended to six more countries in the
Balkan Peninsula.</P>
<P><BR>Before closing, I am grateful that Professor Ledyard (and others) still
remember my efforts to encourage the Romanization discussions of 1999 to move in
desirable directions. I also have to express my gratitude to many foreign Korean
scholars who have been quite indulgent(?) to the story of personal factors at
play in the development of the 2000 Romanization. I do not want to cause any
belated fuss other than better understranding that nationalistic movement was
not really intended.<BR></P>
<P>Sang-Oak Lee
<br></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> "Stefan Ewing"<sa_ewing@hotmail.com><br><b>To : </b> "Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws"<Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br><b>Date : </b> 2005/07/04 êÅèøìí çíîñ 4:42:09<br><b>Subject : </b> Re: [KS] The Romanization Discussion<br><br>Dear KS list members:
<BR>
<BR>My apologies for not replying sooner. We have now successfully moved to our
<BR>new home, all the boxes are unpacked, and I can now once again devote my
<BR>attention to indulgences such as this discussion list.
<BR>
<BR>My sincerest apologies to Dr. Ledyard for any misunderstanding I may have
<BR>caused. I certainly did not feel in any way personally snubbed by him, and
<BR>did not stop writing on the subject because of him. Early on in my
<BR>participation here, a sympathetic commenter pointed out off-list that
<BR>romanization is a subject that many participants are understandably tired of
<BR>discussing. It was right and politic of Dr. Ledyard to throw a nod to such
<BR>participants in one or two of his earlier posts. His comments gave me an
<BR>"out," and I was referring in my last post to the the sentiments he was
<BR>sensibly respecting, not to his own views on the subject _per se_.
<BR>
<BR>I do thank Messrs./Drs. Lee, Ledyard, Ramsey, King, Driscoll, et al. for
<BR>their fascinating comments. The anecdotes in particular--regarding the
<BR>history of Yale Romanization; Rhee Syngman's failed attempts at Hangul
<BR>orthographic reform; and the personal factors at play in the development of
<BR>the 2000 Revised Romanization of Korean--have been quite intriguing. I do
<BR>at least hope that many subscribers who are otherwise uninterested in the
<BR>topic of romanization have enjoyed reading these anecdotes as much as I
<BR>have.
<BR>
<BR>Yours sincerely,
<BR>Stefan Ewing
<BR>
<BR>>From: gkl1@columbia.edu
<BR>>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws>
<BR>>To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws>
<BR>>Subject: Re: [KS] The Romanization Discussion
<BR>>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:54:06 -0400
<BR>>
<BR>>As a long-time list veteran who has been through many discussions on
<BR>>romanization that ended nowhere, I expressed myself tired of the subject in
<BR>>a posting a few weeks ago. Stefan Ewing, who obviously has a genuine,
<BR>>sincere, and informed interest in this topic, seems to have taken my
<BR>>message as a damper, and may have stopped talking about it before he really
<BR>>wanted to. I'm grateful for Mr McGuire giving him an opportunity to get
<BR>>into it again. I deeply regret it if something that I wrote has dissuaded
<BR>>anybody from saying anything they want to say on this list. I have no wish
<BR>>to do so, ever.
<BR>
<BR>>I was surprised that Sang Oak's message-- which really was a very
<BR>>significant comment on the subject, elicited no responses. As a friend of
<BR>>Sang Oak and one familiar with his many efforts to
<BR>>encourage the official Korean romanization discussions of 1999 to move in
<BR>>open and flexible directions, when his own position between his Korean
<BR>>colleagues and his foreign friends made things somewhat tight for him, I
<BR>>have always thought he deserved and deserves the gratitude of all of us.
<BR>>His conclusion that Korea needs three romanization systems is a pragmatic
<BR>>and sensible recognition of reality, and I am sure that that is the way it
<BR>>will play out in the future. Here's to you, Sang Oak! And let no one
<BR>>hesitate to talk about what they want to talk about, no matter what some
<BR>>old crank
<BR>might think!
<BR>
<BR>Gari Ledyard
<BR>
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