[KS] Revised Romanization Detailed Guidelines?

[Hyoungbae Lee]

Dear Dennis,

The reason why the PDF manual does not deal with word divisions is that it does not have separate rules.
The word division rules are given in 한글 맞춤법, and RR observes the same rules.
The original MR does not have word division rules either.

On the other hand, ALA-LC rules, which is an adapted version of MR for library environments, has more word division rules as given in the ALA-LC Korean Romanization Table.
That being said, the ALA-LC system is the only romanization system that requires the separation of particles, such as  -이/가, -은/는, etc.

The National Library of Korea is in the middle of making similar rules for RR like ALA-LC rules.
I don’t know exactly when it will be published, but it won’t be long before we hear something, as the Library already announced its plan to produce bibliographic records using a library version of RR.

Each romanization representation will be like this:
오늘은 날씨가 좋다

1.    Onŭrŭn nalssiga chot’a (Original MR)

2.    Onŭl ŭn nalssi ka chot’a (ALA-LC)

3.      Oneureun nalssiga jota (RR)

4.      Oneul eun nalssi ga jota (most probably, National Library of Korea version of RR)

Hyoungbae

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Hyoungbae Lee
Korean Studies Librarian, Princeton University
(609) 258-0417, HYOUNGL at PRINCETON.EDU
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From: Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreanstudies.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Lee
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 9:25 PM
To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com>
Subject: Re: [KS] Revised Romanization Detailed Guidelines?

Dear Hyoungbae,
Thank you very much for that link. Unfortunately the PDF is essentially the same as the National Institute of Korean Language website and does not adequately address things like word division, particles/prefixes/affixes, etc.
For example, my students are most confused about how to deal with particles (if they should be attached or not). In actual practice (newspapers, publications, etc.), it seems that particles after nouns are inconsistently attached, or some of them will be attached (i/ga, eun/neun, e) but others like possessive ui will be separated.
I've been using McR rules for anything RR does not explicitly mention, but if anybody knows of anything better, please let me know.
I also reached out to the Library of Congress as Brother Anthony suggested (thank you!), and I'll report back if they say anything.
Best wishes,
Dennis


On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Hyoungbae Lee <hyoungl at princeton.edu<mailto:hyoungl at princeton.edu>> wrote:
Dear Dennis,

The National Institute of the Korean Language published a manual in English in 2000.
The scanned images of the manual is available in PDF format on the website of the Institute:
http://www.korean.go.kr/front/reportData/reportDataView.do?mn_id=45&report_seq=623

Hyoungbae

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Korean Studies Librarian
East Asian Library and the Gest Collection
33 Frist Campus Center Rm 307A
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Telephone: (609) 258-0417
Fax: (609) 258-4573
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From: Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreanstudies.com<mailto:koreanstudies-bounces at koreanstudies.com>] On Behalf Of Dennis Lee
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 8:38 AM
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Subject: [KS] Revised Romanization Detailed Guidelines?

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone know if there are any detailed guides for Revised Romanization beyond the one-page National Institute of Korean Language website and Wikipedia, similar to the ALA-LC guide we have for McCune–Reischauer?

I'm sure someone must've asked this already, but I couldn't find anything in the KS archives or online.

Thank you,
Dennis Lee


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