User:Vylmen/Romanization

One of the problems with romanizations of Korean names is that despite the existances of McCune-Reischauer, and later Revised Romanization, many Korean personal names are still popularly romanized differently from both. This lack of a standardized method of romanizing names has created a problem of which many variants of the same name exist. An example will be: Song Il Gook being sometimes found as Song Il Guk, or even Song Il Kook.

The purpose of this Romanization preference list is to create a DramaWiki-wide standard when it comes to romanizing Korean personal names. Reason for this is that all articles in DramaWiki are linked two-ways (Jang Dong Gun has acted in All About Eve and is listed in his drama list. The list in the All About Eve page is also linked back to him.)

Other things to note when romanizing artist names are as follows:

• All parts of the name are seperated without dashes and capitalized. (eg. Jang Dong Gun instead of Jang Dong-gun)
• The revised romanization of the name is put in brackets after the name. (eg. 장동건 / Jang Dong-gun (Jang Dong-geon))
• All other variants will be put in a Also known as: section in the profile so that all variations can be found.
• See also: DramaWiki:Korean Artist Article Formatting

Recommended romanization of Hangul for people names in DramaWiki
(see also: DramaWiki:Romanization of Hangul)
Please discuss any changes to this list on the talk page first

한글	RR	Recommended romanization
Consonants (initial/final)
ㄱ	g/k	Follow RR (Go Ah Ra, Suk Bo Bae), exceptions: 김 is always Kim (Kim Ae Ran) 강 is always Kang (Kang Boo Ja, Choi Kang Hee) if ㄱ is followed by ᅲ use Kyu (Kim Yong Kyu, Lee Sun Kyun) if ㄱ is followed by ᅧ use Kyu (for example Kyun Mi Ri and Kim Kyung Hee)
ㄴ	n	Follow RR (Na Hyun Hee, Kang Chan)
ㄷ	d/t	Follow RR (Do Hyun Jung, no known examples for name ending in t)
ㄹ	r/l	follow RR (Ro Woon, Choi Chul Ho)
ㅁ	m	Follow RR (Kim Ki Bum, Byun Woo Min)
ㅂ	b/p	Follow RR (Won Bin, Kim Bup Rae). Exception: Surname Park(박)
ㅅ	s/t	Follow RR (Ban Ya Sung). Exception: s becomes sh when followed by i (Baek Yoon Shik)
ㅇ	-/ng	Follow RR (Eun Hyuk (silent consonant), Chun Jung Myung)
ㅈ	j/t	Follow RR j for initial (Jang Nara), t for final
ㅊ	ch/t	Follow RR ch if initial (Choi Si Won) and t if final (Wang Bit Na (왕빛나))
ㅋ	k	Follow RR
ㅌ	t	Follow RR
ㅍ	p	Follow RR
ㅎ	h	Follow RR
한글	RR	Recommended romanization
Vowels
ㅏ	a	Use Ah if beginning with ㅇ(eg. ah(아), ahn(안)). Use a in any other instances
ㅑ	ya	Follow RR
ᅥ	eo	Use our own rules: 서 becomes Suh. However, Seo is just as common, which may come from artist / agency preference (Suh Hyun Joo and Kim Hyo Seo). Use uh over eo if beginning with ㅇ (Uh Soo Sun, Im Sung Uhn). Use u over eo in any other instances (Sung Hoon).
ㅕ	yeo	yu (Kim Hyung Il) or young for 영 (eg. Moon Geun Young).
ㅗ	o	Use oh if beginning with ㅇ(eg. oh(오), ohn(온))(example:Dennis Oh). Use o in any other instances
ㅛ	yo	Follow RR
ㅜ	u	Use oo over u (example: Kim Min Joo), woo if beginning with ㅇ
ㅠ	yu	Use yoo (Example: Yoo Sun)
ㅡ	eu	Follow RR
ㅣ	i	Follow RR (for example Min Do Hee), except for: Surname 이 becomes Lee (Lee Ae Jung) 이 becomes yi (So Yi Hyun and Yoon So Yi) Other combinations of 이 become I, such as 일 becomes Il (Jung Il Woo)
ㅐ	ae	Follow RR
ㅒ	yae	Follow RR
ㅔ	e	Follow RR
ㅖ	ye	Follow RR
ㅘ	wa	Follow RR
ㅙ	wae	Follow RR
ㅚ	oe	Follow RR, exception: oi for final (Choi Ja Hye) Note: No known an example where ㅚ is not final. It may not exist in names.
ㅝ	wo	Follow RR
ᅰ	we	Follow RR
ㅟ	wi	Follow RR
ㅢ	ui	Use ee over ui (Kim Tae Hee instead of Kim Tae Hui)

External links

• Romanization of Korean