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 ...

The administration is working with foreign advisors and Korean language scholars to overhaul the official romanization system for Korean to make it easier for foreigners to understand, the head of a ...

BEIJING (AP) — Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China's Pinyin Romanization system, died Saturday at the age of 111. Born in 1906 during China's last imperial dynasty, the ...

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 ...

The protracted controversy over the country's official Mandarin romanization system was ended yesterday when the Ministry of Education announced that it opted for the Tongyong Pinyin System (通用拼音).

Political observers yesterday expressed divided views over the Cabinet's official approval of the Tongyong Pinyin as the nation's official system for Romanization and the plan to offer incentives to ...

Last week we learned that the chairman of the Presidential Committee on National Competitiveness wants to tinker with South Korea’s romanization system, by which Korean words are written in the Latin ...

The romanization of any language is no easy matter. With Chinese, for example, the system in China differs somewhat from that in Taiwan and varied transliterations exist in South Korea. But when ...

Dear Mr. Know-It-All, What’s the correct way of writing Cantonese with letters? It seems so inconsistent! – Letter Lad Putonghua has its well codified romanization system of pinyin: with four tones ...

BEIJING – Zhou Youguang, considered the father of modern China's Pinyin Romanization system, has died at the age of 111. Born in 1906 during the Qing Dynasty, Zhou passed away at his home in Beijing ...

BEIJING — Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization system, died Saturday at age 111. Born in 1906 during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing, Mr. Zhou ...