Revised Romanization of Korean
official Korean language romanization system in South Korea
Revised Romanization of Korean (RR; Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. It was developed by the National Academy of the Korean Language from 1995 and was released to the public on 7 July 2000 by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Proclamation No. 2000-8.
The main purpose of RR is to romanize proper nouns such as place names, personal names, and business names.
Conversion process
The following steps are applied in order to construct an RR romanization from a Hangul string:
With some exceptions, swap out portions of the Hangul string to reflect standard pronunciation spellings. For example, swap out "독립문" (*Dokripmun) with "동님문" (Dongnimmun); the latter spelling is how the former is pronounced.
Exceptions include the given names of people (keep "한복남" (Han Boknam), even though it is pronounced "한봉남" (Han Bongnam)) or between syllables that will receive hyphens in the romanization (keep "인왕리" (Inwang-ri), even though it is pronounced "인왕니" (Inwang-ni)).
For each syllable, in order from left to right, break the syllable down into jamo (letters). For each jamo (in order, within the syllable, of left to right, top to bottom), refer to either the consonant or vowel table below, depending on the role the jamo is serving. Some consonants are rendered differently depending on whether they are the initial or final character of a syllable; use the corresponding romanization.
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