McCune–Reischauer
McCune–Reischauer romanization (/məˈkjuːn ˈraɪʃaʊ.ər/) is one of the two most widely used Korean-language romanization systems. It was created in 1937 and the ALA-LC variant based on it is currently used for standard romanization library catalogs in North America.
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The system was first published in 1939 by George M. McCune and Edwin O. Reischauer. With a few exceptions, it does not attempt to transliterate Korean hangul but rather represents the phonetic pronunciation.
A variant of McCune–Reischauer is still used as the official system in North Korea.
South Korea formerly used another variant of McCune–Reischauer as its official system between 1984 and 2000, but replaced it with the Revised Romanization of Korean in 2000.
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