[KS] broken Korean text.

[kevin parks]

I sometimes get messages from my Korean colleagues and friends that end 
up looking like:


앉&#45398  ....

and some that look like

??????? etc.


and others that come out just fine in Hangul if i jiggle the text 
encoding settings..

Once the letters get "broken" is there any filter or program that i can 
run this garbled text through to get the reconstituted Korean?

I am on Mac OS X 10.4.x  i use Mail.app for mail but also tried saving 
these messages as text and opening the text with various encodings 
explicitly set in the open dialog box.....

sorry for such a mundane query. I used to have this problem under OS 
9... haven't seen it in a while... but i would love to be able to read 
these texts and to better understand the various tech issues involved.

cheers,

kevin parks