[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 127, Issue 21

Sangoak Lee sangoak2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 05:02:37 EST 2014


Good News for a Happy New Year!
Try this *new converter btn the Revised Romanization system <-&-> the
McCune-Reischauer system**.*

*Enter http://urimal.cs.pusan.ac.kr/urimal_new/
<http://urimal.cs.pusan.ac.kr/urimal_new/>  and the second, green menu '로마자
변환기' and choose English*, please.

Since the National Institute of the Korean Language in the Korean
government is occupied by silly novices who cannot handle
the Romanization business in English, they did not respond to my urge to
make a converter between RR and MR in the last year.

Thus I asked Professor Hyeok-Cheol Kwon in Busan University who is well
versed in linguistic matters as computer engineer
to develop a workable converter. It is under construction in overdue
schudule but I decide to open it to the Koreanstudies Digest
to get some feedback in advance.


2014-01-28 <koreanstudies-request at koreanstudies.com>

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
>       university presses (Eugene Y. Park)
>    2. Re: Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
>       university presses (Charles Muller)
>    3. Re: Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
>       university presses (Katsiaficas, George)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:51:12 -0500
> From: "Eugene Y. Park" <epa at sas.upenn.edu>
> To: "Robinson, Michael E." <robime at indiana.edu>,        Korean Studies
>         Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
>         university presses
> Message-ID: <52E5D7B0.5070803 at sas.upenn.edu>
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> Dear Mike,
>
> Many thanks for your insights. I've learned while working with my
> publishers that in the end, it is indeed up to the author to check
> everything as thoroughly as possible--including the romanization.
>
> Just to be safe, though, perhaps I should check with various university
> presses in advance about their takes on the Korean romanization.
>
> All the best,
> Gene
>
> Eugene Y. Park
> Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
> Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
> University of Pennsylvania
> http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/park.shtml
>
> On 1/24/2014 10:38 AM, Robinson, Michael E. wrote:
> > Dear Gene:
> >
> > My understanding is the RR is accepted as is McCune-Reischauer....it's
> more up to the author.  More importantly, it's up to the author to monitor
> the use and consistency of any system used.  The Presses just don't know
> how to nor can they sometimes recognize or care about sloppy, unsystematic,
> idiosyncratic, made-up usage.
> >
> > Mike R.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreanstudies.com] On
> Behalf Of Eugene Y. Park
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:05 PM
> > To: Korean Studies Discussion List
> > Subject: [KS] Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
> university presses
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > By no means advocating a particular romanization system, I would like to
> know whether American university presses now publish books on Korea using
> the Revised Romanization system rather than the McCune-Reischauer system.
> About ten years ago, an American colleague of mine attempted in vain to
> submit a manuscript using RR, but I wonder if things have changed since
> then. I would like to have an idea as I'm getting started with a new book
> project.
> >
> > I look forward to your input, and thank you in advance!
> >
> > Yours,
> > Gene
> >
> > Eugene Y. Park
> > Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History Director, James Joo-Jin
> Kim Program in Korean Studies University of Pennsylvania
> http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/park.shtml
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:20:37 +0900
> From: Charles Muller <acmuller at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
> To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
>         university presses
> Message-ID: <52E5DE95.7000904 at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> On 2014?01?25? 00:38, Robinson, Michael E. wrote:
>
> > My understanding is the RR is accepted as is
> > McCune-Reischauer....it's more up to the author.  More
> > importantly, it's up to the author to monitor the use and
> > consistency of any system used.  The Presses just don't know how
> > to nor can they sometimes recognize or care about sloppy,
> > unsystematic, idiosyncratic, made-up usage.
>
> I recently made an agreement to publish a book with a major
> university press. As a user of RR, I wanted to confirm in advance
> that I would be able to use my manuscript as-is. I was told that as
> long as I use an officially-documented system consistently and
> accurately, it wouldn't matter.
>
> This is, of course, the way it should be. I mean, when it comes to
> the transcription of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and other languages, what
> the publishers care most about is consistency--not adherence to any
> particular system.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>
> -------------------
>
> A. Charles Muller
>
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> Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters
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>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:57:15 +0000
> From: "Katsiaficas, George" <katsiaficasg at wit.edu>
> To: "<epa at sas.upenn.edu>" <epa at sas.upenn.edu>, Korean Studies
>         Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
> Subject: Re: [KS] Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
>         university presses
> Message-ID: <51C03F36-99DB-4CCD-8C61-037A2E1FC9B0 at wit.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Dear Eugene,
> Have you considered simply using Hangul (with English translation in
> parentheses), especially since Korean is now easily inserted in English
>  documents?
> Yours,
> George
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:06 PM, "Eugene Y. Park" <epa at sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mike,
> >
> > Many thanks for your insights. I've learned while working with my
> publishers that in the end, it is indeed up to the author to check
> everything as thoroughly as possible--including the romanization.
> >
> > Just to be safe, though, perhaps I should check with various university
> presses in advance about their takes on the Korean romanization.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Gene
> >
> > Eugene Y. Park
> > Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
> > Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
> > University of Pennsylvania
> > http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/park.shtml
> >
> >> On 1/24/2014 10:38 AM, Robinson, Michael E. wrote:
> >> Dear Gene:
> >>
> >> My understanding is the RR is accepted as is McCune-Reischauer....it's
> more up to the author.  More importantly, it's up to the author to monitor
> the use and consistency of any system used.  The Presses just don't know
> how to nor can they sometimes recognize or care about sloppy, unsystematic,
> idiosyncratic, made-up usage.
> >>
> >> Mike R.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreanstudies.com]
> On Behalf Of Eugene Y. Park
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:05 PM
> >> To: Korean Studies Discussion List
> >> Subject: [KS] Revised Romanization [system ]of Korean and U.S.
> university presses
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> By no means advocating a particular romanization system, I would like
> to know whether American university presses now publish books on Korea
> using the Revised Romanization system rather than the McCune-Reischauer
> system. About ten years ago, an American colleague of mine attempted in
> vain to submit a manuscript using RR, but I wonder if things have changed
> since then. I would like to have an idea as I'm getting started with a new
> book project.
> >>
> >> I look forward to your input, and thank you in advance!
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >> Gene
> >>
> >> Eugene Y. Park
> >> Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History Director, James Joo-Jin
> Kim Program in Korean Studies University of Pennsylvania
> http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/park.shtml
> >
> >
>
>
>
> End of Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 127, Issue 21
> **********************************************
>



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이상억 Sang-Oak Lee/www.sangoak.com
Prof. Emeritus, Dep't of Korean
College of Humanities, Seoul Nat'l Univ.
Seoul 151-745, Korea
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