[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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