[KS] Enforced Romanization

J.Scott Burgeson jsburgeson at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 22 01:19:06 EST 2005


--- rupert <rupert at aks.ac.kr> wrote:

> Looks like a new bill is being put forward to
> enforece the standardization of romanized Korean -
> even personal names.


While they're at it, they should practice what they
preach and enforce a standardized Han'gulization of
foreign words such as English. Is it "supa" or "syupa"
for "super" ie, "supermarket"? The examples are
endless. The next step would be actually to use
English loan words properly in Korean, many of which
are Koreanized versions of Japlish. The word "apart"
in Korean is in fact an adjective in English used to
refer to a noun (apartment) here. Again, the examples
are endless. Splitting hairs over whether it's "Pusan"
or "Busan" (both are valid but ultimately failed
attempts at rough approximation) seems self-indulgent
and hypocritical to say the least when far more
egregious examples of bastardized English and other
foreign languages abound in Korea...
   --Scott Bug




		
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