[KS] Re: How to Write Korean Names in English?

Yuh Ji-Yeon jiyeon at sas.upenn.edu
Sat Jan 9 16:13:59 EST 1999


just a question arising from my ignorance of  the recommendation
referenced: how does leaving out a hyphen in a romanized korean personal
name leave it as an unalyzed entity? 

take  care,
ji-yeon

At 06:15 ¿ÀÀü 99-01-09 -0800, you wrote:
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>Mark Peterson asks why some university presses omit a hyphen in the
>typical Korean personal name (created from two Chinese characters), others
>put it in. Leaving it out, so that the personal name is treated as an
>unanalyzed entity, follows the recommendation of a 1982 conference
>that I chaired. You will find the all the recommendations in "Report of the
>Workshop Conference on Korean Romanization", Korean Studies 4 (Center for
>Korean Studies, U.H.). That paper is sometimes referred to as "Austerlitz
>et al.", since I asked that the participants be listed alphabetically.
>
>I regret that the paper has been largely forgotten, for it contains
>reasonable compromises on different approaches to particular problems.
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