[KS] Spaces of Korean phrases in Library catalog

Clark W Sorensen sangok at u.washington.edu
Mon Apr 9 13:41:37 EDT 2007


Frank,

The University of Washington Press's series on Korea uses only the McCune-Reischauer system. As manuscripts come in full of romanization errors regardless of the system the writer is purportedly using, as a practical matter, unless there is a bilingual editor who knows the MC system very well that vetts all manuscripts, the mixed results of the JAS and Journal of Korean Studies that you describe will be the inevitable result.

Clark Sorensen
University of Washington

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Frank Hoffmann wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> Wish you all a Happy Easter!
>
> I have an add-on question, not exactly the thread's topic, but I don't feel 
> like opening a new one because it relates.
> What is the present consent, years after the SK government's new transcription 
> system was introduced, about the usage of the two systems, McCune-Reischauer 
> and the SK system? This is *not* to refresh all the arguments about the pros 
> and cons, those have been discussed here in depth long ago. I just wonder how 
> active scholars working in any area of Korean studies are handling the 
> situation in both, their classrooms and their own publications. For example, I 
> see that good scholarly journals such as JAS still lists McC-R as the system to 
> use without actually following that policy (some book reviews, for example, are 
> using the SK system, and some articles use both or no system at all in the same 
> article). The revived Journal of Korean Studies showed the same mixup -- but 
> not sure about any later issues published after 2005 (have not seen these yet).
>
> So, what is acceptable? Do you use both systems, depending on the place of 
> publication or the trace of money? And what do you tell your students to use?
>
> NOTE: My Easter wish ... if you reply, please let's cut out any comments on the 
> systems themselves.
>
> Best,
> Frank
>
>
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