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  romanisation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A Romanization or Romanisation is a system for representing a language with the Roman alphabet, where these typically use a writing system other than the Roman alphabet.
Romanization in the Korean language is called "Romaja".
Today, South Korea uses the revised version of Romanization that was approved by their government in the year of 2000.
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 Countries: South Korea
South Korea's capital and largest city is Seoul in the northwest, other major cities include nearby Incheon, central Daejeon, Gwangju in the southwest and Daegu and Busan in the southeast.
Koreans have lived in Manchuria for many centuries, who are now a minority in China, and Joseph Stalin sent thousands of Koreans, against their will, to Central Asia (in the former U.S.S.R.) from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, while the majority of Korean population in Japan moved there during the colonial period.
Koreans are the only people in the world who fully understand how, when and why their written language was created through the transcripts of King Sejong's innovative contribution.
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 Revised Romanization of Korean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The system was released by South Korean authorities in 2000 and is the South Korean official replacement for the 1984 McCune-Reischauer–based romanization system.
The Revised Romanization is not expected to be adopted as the official romanization of Korean family names.
Indeed, a frequent complaint of many foreign residents and visitors to South Korea is that the revised Romanization system hinders their ability to even come close to an accurate and comprehensible rendering of Korean pronunciation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_South_Korean_revised_romanisation   (880 words)

  
 north korean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Buk Han ("North Han"; 북한; 北韓) is commonly used in South Korea, as is the revised romanisation of Chosun Minjujui Inmin Gonghwa-guk for the official name.
Korean language is not a member of a wider linguistic family, though links to Japanese and Altaic languages are being considered.
The Korean writing system, Hangeul, was invented in the 15th century by King Sejong the Great to replace the system of Chinese characters, known in Korea as Hanja, which are no longer officially in use in the North.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /North_Korean.html   (1625 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A Korean personal name consists of a family name and a given name, both of which are generally composed of Hanja.
In English, some Koreans keep the original order and others reverse their names to match the European or North American naming order, which is the given name followed by the family name.
Korean family names are influenced by Chinese family names, hence, as in Chinese, the term the hundred family names (baekseong; 백성; 百姓) means "the people" or "commoners." As with Chinese family names, almost all Korean family names have just one Hanja (hence are one syllable).
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 North Korea
This led in 1948 to the establishment of separate governments in the north and south, each claiming to be the legitimate government over all of Korea.
China and South Korea are the biggest trade partners of North Korea, with trade with China going up 38% to $1.02 billion in 2003, and trade with South Korea going up 12% to $724 million in 2003 since the start of the experiment.
The Korean writing system, Hangul, was invented in the 15th century by King Sejong the Great to replace the system of Chinese characters, known in Korea as Hanja, which are no longer officially in use in the North.
www.askfactmaster.com /North_Korea   (2423 words)

  
 SARS: South Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
To the north its borders North Korea with which it formed a single nation until 1948, while Japan lies across the East Sea and Korean Strait to the southeast.
In Population Ranked 25th June 1950 the North invaded the South К- Total (2002) 48,324,000 igniting the Korean War.
The city of Seoul is the most populated single city (excluding greater metropolitan areas) in the world that human civilization has yet to build.
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 North Korea - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Traditionally said to have been founded in 2333 BC, Korea was divided into the three kingdoms of Baekje[?], Goguryeo, and Silla[?] during the 1st to 7th centuries, of which the latter alone remained.
The oppressive Japanese occupation ended after World War II in 1945, after which Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union in north of the 38th parallel and by the United States south of the 38th parallel.
The Korean writing system, Hangeul, was invented in the 15th century by King Sejong to replace the system of borrowed Chinese characters, known as Hanja in Korea, which are no longer officially in use in the North.
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 South Korea - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Language Korean Capital Seoul After the end of World War II in 1945, President Roh Moo-hyun Korea was divided into two zones of influence, followed in 1948 by two Prime minister Goh Kun matching governments: a communist North Area Ranked 107th and a United States-influenced South.
Politics Main article: Politics of South Korea Head of state of the republic of Korea is the president, who is elected by direct popular vote for a single five-year term.
Demographics Main article: Demographics of South Korea Korea's population is one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogenous in the world, with the only minority being a small Chinese community.
www.questionz.net /Internet/South_Korea.html   (1139 words)

  
 Bohai - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bohai (Chinese) or Balhae (Korean) was a kingdom in northeast Asia from AD 698 to 926, occupying parts of Manchuria, northern Korea, and Russian Far East.
In North and South Korea, Bohai is regarded as a Korean state and is positioned in the "North-South period" (with Silla) today, although such a trend has been marginal for a long time.
Koreans and traditional Chinese historians claim that the founder Da Zuorong was of Goguryeo-kind.
www.unipedia.info /Balhae.html   (900 words)

  
 Countries: North Korea
Buk Han is commonly used in South Korea, as is the revised romanisation of Chosun Minjujui Inmin Gonghwa-guk for the official name.
He Currency North Korean won was named posthumously "eternal president." North Korea is officially Time zone UTC +9 lead by a Prime Minister, but real power lies with his son Kim Jong Il National anthem A ch'im un pinnara, i kangsan ungum e and the military.
Despite a detente in international relations, including a Internet TLD None (.KP is reserved) historic North-South summit in June 2000, tensions have recently increased Calling Code 850 in the wake of the resumption of the (1) Kim Yong-nam is the de facto North's nuclear weapons programme.
www.morelawinfo.com /Countries/North_Korea.shtml   (1108 words)

  
 Silence Broken:Korea Comfort Women, reviewed by Howard
According to most accounts, the majority of the women were Koreans, typically teenagers, and most were taken from families, schools, and friends in Korea either by force or on the promise of work in factories or for Japanese families.
Hence, between the testimonies of surviving 'comfort women' whom she has interviewed, we have accounts of her struggling with police in China to be allowed to interview two surviving women, several chapters of history, comments relating her reactions and emotions as she is told about what happened to her informants, and five poems.
Romanisation is curious, explained in the preliminary notes in terms of "I did my own transliteration as closely as they sound without following the most common practice of using the McCune-Reischauer system".
koreaweb.ws /ks/ksr/ksr00-07.htm   (2067 words)

  
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United States south of the 38th parallel, but the United States and the Soviet Union were unable to agree on implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea.
Korean War, when on June 25th 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army crossed the 38th Parallel and attacked in force.
romanisation of Korean, in contrast to the South's
en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/North_Korea   (2175 words)

  
 Romanization - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In antiquity, Romanization or Latinization was also the imposition of Roman culture and language.
A Romanization or Latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Latin alphabet, where the original word or language used a writing system other than the Roman alphabet.
Today, South Korea officially uses the revised version of Romanization that was approved in 2000.
www.gurupedia.com /r/ro/romanisation.htm   (609 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Growing tensions between the governments in the north and south eventually led to the Korean War, when on June 25 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army crossed the 38th Parallel and attacked in force.
The North Korean military's effect on the economy cannot be overestimated.
Mainland China and South Korea are the biggest trade partners of North Korea, with trade with China going up 38% to $1.02 billion in 2003, and trade with South Korea going up 12% to $724 million in 2003 since the start of the experiment.
www.nowtryus.com /article:North_Korea   (2689 words)

  
 Kushibo-e Kibun: What is the sound of one hack yapping?: Korea versus Corea
Note that the Korean Olympic Committee was formed in 1946, before the Republic of Korea was officially established, and in time for the 1948 Olympics when Korea made its Olympic debut (South Korea also participated in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, despite the Korean War raging at the time).
If the South Korean government decided to change the country's English name to the "Republic of Corea" (much as I disagree with it), the world would have to comply.
Koreans used to write it primarily as 동경, the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese characters, 東京.
kushibo.blogspot.com /2005/05/korea-versus-corea.html   (9843 words)

  
 Everything you always wanted to know about South Korea
National motto: None History Official language Korean Main articles: History of Korea, History Capital Seoul of South Korea.
President Roh Moo-hyun After the end of World War II in 1945, Prime minister Goh Kun Korea was divided into two zones of Area Ranked 107th influence, followed in 1948 by two Ê- Total 99,274 km² matching governments: a communist North Ê- % water 0.3% and a United States-influenced South.
Koreans have lived in Manchuria for many centuries, who are now a minority in China, and Joseph Stalin sent thousands of Koreans, against their will, to Central Asia (in the former U.S.S.R.) from Vladivostok, while the Korean population in Japan moved there during the colonial period.
www.relan.net /DVD/South_Korea.html   (1021 words)

  
 History of Taekwondo
King Jungo revised the defence measures of the nation to again include martial art practice in military training.
Through the centuries, the Korean peninsula was often attacked and invaded, however the fierce spirit of the Taekwondo warriors was never crushed and the Art was preserved.
The speaking of the Korean language was also forbidden and measures were taken to change family names in order to change the identity of the Koreans.
members.optusnet.com.au /sunbae/history.html   (1776 words)

  
 Saet Byol Newsletter - September 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Korean wanted the foreigner to know that, because he had stopped, the Korean had lost the opportunity of a lifetime, to live without fear of misfortune for the rest of his life because surely his devil would have been run over by the automobile and killed.
Among the stunning objects in the exhibition are white porcelains, which convey a restrained beauty that harmonised with Confucian ideals of honesty, purity, simplicity and frugality; and punch'ong stonewares, which, through their spontaneously brushed and incised decoration, express a strong sense of life and connection with the natural world.
The Korean alphabet developed during the Choson dynasty and included in the exhibition is calligraphy written in the new Hangul script and a bilingual volume of the Analects by Confucius (Chinese and Korean), considered one of the most important Confucian texts.
bat.phys.unsw.edu.au /~saetbyol/newsletter/sb0009.html   (3461 words)

  
 ASAA E-NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The 2000 conference will be held at the University of Melbourne on 3-5 July, hosted by the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies under the convenorship of Professor Merle Ricklefs.
The National Korean Studies Centre was originally established with a special grant from the Australian government to provide a national focus for research and teaching on Korea.
Borneo 2000 is a multi-disciplinary conference including, the social sciences, the biological sciences and the medical sciences.
sites.uws.edu.au /social/asaa/asaa7.html   (9646 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea.
Following the official ideology of Juche (self-reliance) and the central planning mandated by its brand of Marxist socialism, North Korea's economy has stagnated.
Reports by human rights organizations regularly accuse the government of failing to protect the human rights of North Koreans; [link] North Korea receives particular criticism for its policy of preventing citizens from leaving the country freely.
www.dizaynworlds.info /index.php?title=North_Korea   (2473 words)

  
 SMS Power! - Forums - View topic - Korean again - sjugg
Under different romanisation schemes it comes out very differently, but under the 2000 Revised Romanization it seems to be "jang pung".
(It's an SMS mode Korean GG Street Fighter clone.) The title is "장풍 II" which seems not to be a phonetic representation.
It was notably used in a recent (South, obviously) Korean movie called "Arahan", which is reasonably well-known internationally (if not by me).
www.smspower.org /forums/viewtopic.php?p=28618#28618   (335 words)

  
 Wikinfo | North Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The war continued until July 27th 1953, when the United Nations Command, the Chinese People's Volunteers and North Korea signed the Korean War Armistice Agreement.
Reports by human rights organizations regularly accuse the government of failing to protect the human rights of North Koreans; [1] North Korea receives particular criticism for its policy of preventing citizens from leaving the country freely.
Under the North Korean criminal code, exiting the state without official permission is a form of treason, in contravention of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=North_Korea   (2535 words)

  
 FAQ 11. History of Mah-Jongg
The leaves were almost certainly not playing-cards but pages of a reference book in which the results of the various possible dice throws were set out.
September 29, 2000 -- The Mahjong Newsgroup FAQs migrated to thegameguru.net.
December 31, 2000 -- Cleanup in detail; converted file to HTML format and went online with it for the first time.
www.sloperama.com /mjfaq/mjfaq11.html   (9070 words)

  
 2000 south korean revised romanisation - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Whose day is it today anyway?
In fact, there are at least three different romanisation systems of the Korean languagr: the Yale romanisation, used mainly in academic literature; the McCune-Reischauer romanisation devised by two Americans in 1937; and the Revised Romanisation of Korean developed by the National Academy of the Korean Language and released on 4 July 2000.
According to the revised romanisation, Hangeul is spelt Han-geullal, so Hangul Day should properly be Hangeullal Day.
Bakker's ministry had grown from humble beginnings in Fort Mill, South Carolina, in 1974 to become a multi-million dollar operation that by 1987 included a 500-room luxury hotel, a 2,300-acre Christiam theme park, an amphitheatre and a cable TV network with 13 million subscribers.
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 1000Countries.com: Korea, North III: korea, north, KOREA, NORTH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Buk Han ("North Han"; \; Ó) is commonly used in South Korea, as is the revised romanisation of...
North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexities of the Korean peninsula."> November 2003 Browse through other titles in • Open Media Pamphlets...
Provides a better understanding of the sources of controversy over the South Korean government's approach toward North Korea and what implications of the controversy might be for South Korea and...
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 christy chung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sohn Kee-chung Sohn Kee-chung, or in revised romanisation, Son Gi-jung (손기정 ; 孫基禎) (1912 - 2000), was the first award-winning Korean Olympian, with his teammate Nam Sung-yong.
Chung Mong-hun Chung Mong-hun (정몽헌, 鄭夢憲) (September 14,1948 - August 4, 2003) was the 5th son of Chung Ju-young, the founder of the South Korean Hyundai conglomerate.
After the death of his father, he took over part of his father's role and became the chairman of Hyundai Asan, that is in
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