Many people who came into contact with the Korean language soon notice that there are very many ways to relay the same Korean word in English.

You get to know a Korean lady called Mison, for example, and then you see her name spelled as “Misun” or “Miseon.” You hear about a demonstration in a city of Kwangju. You look for it on the internet and find that  many sites spell it “Gwangju”.

There are two most widely-known transliteration systems for turning Korean language into Latin script.

THE GOOD

The first one is called McCune-Reischauer (MCR) and is named for