Summary of Korean Romanization

Although I'm somewhat opposed to Romanization, as it tends to delay people's learning of the Korean alphabet, there has been a demand from people who have used this site for a summary page that they can print out. Here it is. But don't use it! <grin>

In the consonant table, a consonant with an apostrophe following it is pronounced “aspirated”, with a puff of air after it. A double consonant is “tense” or glottalized.

In the vowel table, the letter e is short (as in ten), i is pronounced as in elite (an “ee” sound), and u is a long u as pronounced like the oo in room.

ConsonantRomanized
k
kk
n
t
tt
r
m
p
pp
s
ss
silent at start of syll.
ng at end of syll.
ch
jj
ch'
k'
t'
p'
h

VowelRomanized
Simple vowels
a
ae
eo
e
o
u
eu
i
“y” vowels
ya
yae
yeo
ye
yo
yu
Diphthongs
wa
wae
oe
weo
we
wi
eui

(Menu)End of Tutorial