Quietly, ever so quietly, displeasure with the current Romanization system of Korean is seeping into the news. The issue stands with Chinese characters as the most contested Korean-language issue of ...

Youe Mahn-gunn, a professor emeritus at Sungkyunkwan University who chaired a subcommittee of six scholars established by the National Institute of the Korean Language charged with devising a new ...

Two weeks after taking office, South Korea’s new president quietly reintroduced himself — this time, without a hyphen. The presidential office issued new media guidelines on June 17, declaring that ...

Do you know what "ah-shot-chu" means? Recently, Hoshi of the K-pop group Seventeen used the phrase in a Weverse message, and Zee, who provides English translations of the group's messages via Twitter, ...

The next government is poised to push for a revision of the current Romanization system for the alphabet ― when converting English into Korean words. ``It is difficult for Koreans to pronounce English ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Seung-gon] As Japan repeatedly claims that 'Dokdo is our land,' the fact that Father Kim Dae-geon (1821?1846) created a Romanized Korean map including Dokdo and spread it to ...

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced Monday that it would be releasing a draft for the standard Romanization and translation of Korean dishes in commemoration of Hangeul Day on Oct. 9 ...