Loan Words
Before we wade into Korean grammar and vocabulary let's get some more alphabet practice with some words that you already know!
Anglicization vs Korean
We introduce two of the most famous Korean companies, Samsung and Hyundai. Don't be surprised that some companies and given names don't fit the romanization we're using.
Korean has had several standard systems of romanization over the years, with Revised Romanization currently the official system in use by South Korea and in this course. It came about in the 90s, so props nouns and words that had previous entered English often use of one of the older systems.
This gives us Samsung and Hyundai rather than "samseong" and "hyeondae".
Transliteration
Transliteration into Korean is based on Korean approximation of English pronunciation.
Sometimes sentence final 'r' is dropped, subsumed into the vowel, like in British pronunciation.
Sometimes single syllables become split since Korean doesn't really do consonant clusters, so 3 syllable United becomes 5 syllable 유나이티드.
Of course, non-English words may be transliterated based on native language pronunciation, as in 팡리 for Paris.
Author's Note:
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