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navigation, search  The Revised Romanization of Korean (국어의 로마자
표기법; lit. Roman letter notation of national language) is the
official Korean language romanization system in South Korea
proclaimed by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, replacing
the older McCune–Reischauer system. The new system eliminates
diacritics in favour of digraphs and adheres more closely to
Korean phonology than to a suggestive rendition of Korean
phonetics for non-native speakers.  The Revised Romanization
limits itself to only the ISO basic Latin alphabet (apart from
limited, often optional use of the hyphen). It was developed by
the National Academy of the Korean Language from 1995 and was
released to the public on July 7, 2000, by South Korea's
Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Proclamation No. 2000-8. The
proclamation cites the following reasons for the new system:[1]
• It promotes consistent romanizati