[KS] Reply about Romanization for Stefan Ewing and everyone else

[Roland Wilson]

Sefan,

Hello.  I can see you have done a lot of work concerning the romanization of 
Korean which in any form is very difficult to do as not all sounds can be 
correctly represented.  That is one reason the linguistic community started 
using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as it has the sounds and 
diacritic markers to properly display almost any language.
I did not see the comparison with South Korean's latest Romanization change 
that is listed on their education/tourist website though I may have 
overlooked it.
As a linguists myself, to give students a better understanding of a 
character, I would always write a hard to pronounce character in IPA.  The 
IPA site as a sound portion where one can "click and learn" which could help 
you improve your paper.
I think in the end, we should do away with all non-standard forms and use 
the South Korean government form even though I do not agree with some of the 
changes.

Regards,

Roland Wilson