<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span>6 October, 2018<br><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span>Dear Richard (and other colleagues),<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span>The M-R system was devised by the then three leading Korean phoneticians - Ch’oe Hyŏnbae, Chŏng Insŏp, and Kim Sŏn’gi and introduced to the world by </span><span><span>George M. McCune and Edwin O. Reischauer in their article ‘Romanization
of the Korean Language Based upon its Phonetic Structure’<i> </i>(<span></span><i>Transactions of the Korea Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society</i>, v. 29 (1939),<span>
</span>pp. 1-55).<span> <br><br></span></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span><span><span>After the introduction of the Korean Government's current system, I wrote an article for the </span></span></span><span><span><span><i><span style="color:black">Journal of East Asian Libraries '</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="color:black">' The New Government Romanisation System for Korean:
Why Was It Necessary?’ (<span style="color:black"></span><span></span><span style="color:black">no. 140 (Oct. 2006),<span> </span>pp.49
-59) and a subsequent article </span></span></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.15pt" lang="EN-US">‘</span>Korean
Romanisation: A Response to Chris Doll’,<span> </span><span style="color:black">(</span><i><span style="color:black">Journal of East Asian Libraries</span></i><span style="color:black">, </span><span> </span><span style="color:black">no. 166 (Feb. 2018),<span> </span>pp.75-79). In these articles I explained why I thought that the current system used by the ROK Government is abysmal and that the long overdue recognition of the actual creators of the system should be given by calling the system CCK (</span></font><font size="2"><span>Ch’oe , Chŏng , and Kim). To my mind, there is no practical alternative for general purposes of Romanisation than this system. <br><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span>With best wishes,<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span>James (Grayson) <br> </span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-0.15pt"></span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 at 13:06, Richard McBride <<a href="mailto:rick_mcbride17@hotmail.com">rick_mcbride17@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I remember that a year or two ago a member of our list posted an interesting fact that the McCune-Reischauer Romanization system was actually created by a few Korean scholars. But the two Western scholars' names were used to provide "legitimacy" for the system. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Unfortunately
I did not save that post. Could somebody confirm this story and provide the names of the two scholars?</span></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Emeritus Professor James H. Grayson<br>School of East Asian Studies<br>The University of Sheffield<br>6/8 Shearwood Road<br>Sheffield S10 2TD<br><br>(tel) 07780 70-1116<br>(fax) +44 114 222-8432<br>(email) <a href="mailto:j.h.grayson@sheffield.ac.uk" target="_blank">j.h.grayson@sheffield.ac.uk</a><br></div></div></div>