[KS] Re: romanization
SteveElSeg at aol.com
SteveElSeg at aol.com
Fri Jan 7 18:53:18 EST 2000
The Korean Government has not yet announced a change in the rules of
romanization. They are still operating under the system adopted in 1984,
which is basically the McCune-Reischauer system.
There is a proposal on the table to change the system. But the newly
proposed system, which seems to be based more on nationalism than on
scholarship, has been widely and loudly criticized, both in this list and
elsewhere.
Linguists and Koreanists the world over have pointed out many problems, not
just with the newly proposed system, but also with the practicalities of
changing things.
S L Shields
Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch
Seoul
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