From kskim@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr Fri Apr 19 06:24:05 1996 Received: from hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr (hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr [164.125.9.3]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA14375 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:23:55 +0200 Received: by hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr (SMI-8.6/Hyowon-MX-1.0) id NAA10084; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:22:00 +0900 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:22:00 +0900 From: kskim@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr (kim kyongsok) Message-Id: <199604190422.NAA10084@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr > To: kskim@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr, whchoi@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Cc: everson@indigo.ie, i18n@dkuug.dk, sc2all@asadal.cs.pusan.ac.kr :"Dae-han-min-Gug (or Han-gug in short)", and that of NK is :"Jo-seon Min-ju-ju-eui In-min Gong-hwa-gug (or Jo-seon in short?)". :The kingdome right before Hangug(SK)/Joseon(NK) was Joseon, :which collapsed in 1910 (when, Japan colonized the whole Korea). :Therefore, "Korea" seems funny (at least to me). :Actually, many Koreans think that the term "Korea" is simply wrong, :a misnomer coined by Westerners. :(Japan has a similar situation: Japan vs. Nippon.) :Now, I suggest that "Hg" be used instead of "ko" :(which seems an abbreviation of Korean). Well... In the heading of ISO 10646-1 code tables, the script name used is "Hangul", not Korean. (0x1100 -..., 0xac00-...) k kim