Korean-Latin Romanizer
An online Korean romanization converter based on the Revised Romanization system (Ministry of Culture Notice 2000-8).
Follows most Korean pronunciation rules including consonant assimilation, palatalization, and initial sound law.
# How it works
koroman is a tool that converts Korean sentences into Latin alphabet by decomposing each syllable into individual Jamo components and transforming them according to romanization rules.
The conversion process follows these steps:
- Decomposition: Korean syllables are decomposed into Choseong (initial), Jungseong (medial), and Jongseong (final) Jamo characters using Unicode.
- Pronunciation rules (optional): Korean phonological changes such as assimilation, palatalization, liaison are applied to the Jamo string.
- Romanization: The modified Jamo characters are converted into Latin letters following the Ministry of Culture's Revised Romanization system (2000 standard).
- Case formatting: The resulting string is formatted according to the user-specified case option (lowercase, word initial capitalization, etc.).
For romanization that more closely resembles actual pronunciation rather than just standard spelling, you can enable the "Apply Pronunciation Rules" option for more natural results.
1️⃣ Jamo Decomposition
Breaking Korean into Unicode Choseong, Jungseong, and Jongseong characters
2️⃣ Apply Pronunciation Rules
Reflecting phonological changes like assimilation and palatalization (optional)
3️⃣ Romanization
Converting Jamo to Latin letters according to romanization standards
4️⃣ Apply Format
Setting lowercase, UPPERCASE, Word Case, or Sentence case formatting
Romanization Examples
- 해돋이 → haedoji (O), haedodi (X)
- 선릉역 → seolleungyeok (O), seonreungyeok (X)
- 역량 → yeongnyang (O), yeokryang (X)
- 굳이 → guji (O), gudi (X)
- 박지성 (Park Jisung) → Bak Jiseong
- 김치 (Kimchi) → Gimchi