Romanizing Korean words

Fri 14 Oct 2022, Day 32/61, 4/4. Gimchi or kimchi are different ways of spelling the same Korean word. In 2002 South Korea published a revised romanization in which the first letter of the alphabet, giyeok, ㄱ, is represented by ‘g’ rather than ‘k’.

Image of first letter in Hanguel alphabet by Jérôme Banal (Eden2004), under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic. Licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en

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