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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Kirk and all. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since the students are reading different systems
because try as I might the sources and various readings still reflect the
confusion. I discuss the two different systems and then use MC on the
board and in handouts. I am delighted if they can use a name or place name
in an exam and therefore just hope the spelling is close. And Kirk, don't
accept Wikipedia because they use it, they are idiots. I don't accept it
as a source, obviously I know they still consult it. I've drifted away
from requiring papers because I refuse to monitor them for internet content and
half are just down loaded anyway. We do mostly in class writing.
More exams. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike R. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kwlarsen@gwu.edu href="mailto:kwlarsen@gwu.edu">Kirk Larsen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">'Korean Studies Discussion List'</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 09, 2007 2:35
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KS] Spaces of Korean
phrases in Library catalog</DIV>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">My two bits on Frank's
query:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In my teaching (PowerPoint slides, lecture notes,
lecture terms etc.) I am only now beginning to move to a practice of listing
both the Mc-R (my default system) and the SK Romanization for key terms, names
etc. This is not least because Wikipedia generally seems to prefer using the
SK system and, like it or not, the students all seem to consult Wikipedia. No
sense in unnecessarily confusing them. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">However, in actual publications, whether scholarly or
policy oriented, I still use Mc-R. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I agree that the practice of many publications to use
both systems (or neither) is undesirable and confusing, particularly for the
neophyte or the non-speaker of Korean. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Kirk W. Larsen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Korea</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:country-region>
Foundation Associate Professor of<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">History and International
Affairs<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Director International Affairs
Program<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1957 E Street 503H<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">George</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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w:st="on">20052</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(202) 994-5253<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">kwlarsen@gwu.edu<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws]
On Behalf Of Frank Hoffmann<BR>Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:14 AM<BR>To:
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Korean Studies Discussion
List</st1:PersonName><BR>Subject: Re: [KS] Spaces of Korean phrases in Library
catalog</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hello All:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Wish you all a Happy
Easter!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have an add-on question, not exactly the thread's
topic, but I <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">don't feel like opening a new one because it
relates.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">What is the present consent, years after the SK
government's new <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">transcription system was introduced, about the usage
of the two <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">systems, McCune-Reischauer and the SK system? This is
*not* to <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">refresh all the arguments about the pros and cons,
those have been <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">discussed here in depth long ago. I just wonder how
active scholars <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">working in any area of Korean studies are handling the
situation in <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">both, their classrooms and their own publications. For
example, I see <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">that good scholarly journals such as JAS still lists
McC-R as the <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">system to use without actually following that policy
(some book <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">reviews, for example, are using the SK system, and
some articles use <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">both or no system at all in the same article). The
revived Journal of <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Korean Studies showed the same mixup -- but not sure
about any later <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">issues published after 2005 (have not seen these
yet).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So, what is acceptable? Do you use both systems,
depending on the <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">place of publication or the trace of money? And what
do you tell your <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">students to use?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">NOTE: My Easter wish ... if you reply, please let's
cut out any <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">comments on the systems
themselves.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Frank<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-- <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">--------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Frank Hoffmann<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">http://koreaweb.ws<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>