[KS] Fwd: Do you know 'hangughag' is only the result for transliteration to apply in academic data processing?

[King, Ross]

Thank you to Professor Lee Sang-Oak for sharing this 'clarification' of the government romanization and demonstrating brilliantly what a mess it is.

Ross King
Professor of Korean and Head of Department
Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
vox: 604-822-2835
fax: 604-822-8937
ross.king at ubc.ca
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Subject: [KS] Fwd: Do you know 'hangughag' is only the result for transliteration to apply in academic data processing?

Please post the following mail for clarifying the -g & -k problem.
Sang-Oak Lee
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From: Sangoak Lee <sangoak2 at gmail.com<mailto:sangoak2 at gmail.com>>
Date: 2014-01-31
Subject: Re: Do you know 'hangughag' is only the result for transliteration to apply in academic data processing?
To: acmuller <acmuller at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp<mailto:acmuller at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp>>




2014-01-31 Sangoak Lee <sangoak2 at gmail.com<mailto:sangoak2 at gmail.com>>:

Persons' name   Convert person’s name.
Proper nouns    Convert proper nouns except for administrative areas, traffic-related place names, person’s name.
Administrative areas    Convert administrative areas, traffic-related place names.
General things  Convert simple sentences or words.
Academic applications   Convert them assuming Hangul is restored.


① Revised Romanization of Korean
② McCune- Reischauer Romanization

Korean Alphabet 한국학

Persons' name   ① Han Gukhak
② Han Kukhak
[Allowed]  Han Guk-hak
Proper nouns    ① Hangukak
② Han'gukak
Administrative areas    ① Hangukak
② Han'gukak
General things  ① han-guk-ak
② han-'guk-ak
Academic applications   ① hangughag
② hankughag
Customary       [Allowed]
 hankughag




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