• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.169-177
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• 2007

Hangul text normalization in current Unicode makes wrong Hangul syllable problems when using with precomposed modern Hangul syllables and composing old Hangul by using conjoining-Hangul Jamo and compatibility Hangul Jamo. This problem comes from allowing incorrect normalization form of compatibility Hangul Jamo and Hangul Symbol and also permitting to use conjoining-Hangul Jamo mixture with precomposed Hangul syllable in Unicode Hangul composing rule. It is caused by lack of consideration of old Hangul and/or insufficient understanding of Hangul code processing when writing specification for normalization forms in Unicode. Therefore on this paper, we study Hangul code in Unicode environment, specifically problems of normalization used for Web and XML, IDN in nowadays. Also we propose modification of Hangul normalization methods and Hangul composing rules for correct processing of Hangul normalization in Unicode.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.1083-1092
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• 2007

In Unicode, two types of Hangul encoding schemes are currently in use, namely, the "precomposed modern Hangul syllables" model and the "conjoining Hangul characters" model. The current Unicode Hangul conjoining rules allow a precomposed Hangul syllable to be a member of a syllable which includes conjoining Hangul characters; this has resulted in a number of different Hangul encoding implementations. This unfortunate problem stems from an incomplete understanding of the Hangul writing system when the normalization and encoding schemes were originally designed. In particular, the extended use of old Hangul was not taken into consideration. As a result, there are different ways to represent Hangul syllables, and this cause problem in the processing of Hangul text, for instance in searching, comparison and sorting functions. In this paper, we discuss the problems with the normalization of current Hangul encodings, and suggest a single efficient rule to correctly process the Hangul encoding in Unicode.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.15-28
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• 2009

This study focused on the comprehension of texts written either in Korean script (Hangul) or Chinese script (Hanja). For this purpose, we measured the reading time and the correct response in text comprehension tasks with 104 Korean-Chinese children who were either 10 or 19 years old. There was a main effect of script : The reading time of Hanja texts was shorter than that of Hangul or Hangul Hanja mixed texts. But the older subjects who spent the same reading time in both Hangul and Hanja texts showed the longer reading time in Hangul Hanja mixed texts revealing the interaction between age and script. The correct response rate on the comprehension task was the highest in Hangul text. The results were discussed in relation to the independent dual language processing systems in Korean-Chinese.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.97-105
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• 2021

Recently, with the development of IT technology, unmanned systems are being introduced in many industrial fields, and one of the most important factors for introducing unmanned systems in the automobile field is vehicle licence plate recognition(VLPR). The existing VLPR algorithms are configured to use image processing for a specific type of license plate to divide individual areas of a character within the plate to recognize each character. However, as the number of Korean vehicle license plates increases, the law is amended, there are old-fashioned license plates, new license plates, and different types of plates are used for each type of vehicle. Therefore, it is necessary to update the VLPR system every time, which incurs costs. In this paper, we use an object detection algorithm to detect character regardless of the format of the vehicle license plate, and apply a handwritten Hangul recognition(HHR) algorithm to enhance the recognition accuracy of a single Hangul character, which is called a Hangul unit. Since Hangul unit is recognized by combining initial consonant, medial vowel and final consonant, so it is possible to use other Hangul units in addition to the 40 Hangul units used for the Korean vehicle license plate.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.145-155
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• 2005

This study was carried out to reveal Hangul acquisition processes in Korean-Chinese children who grow in a horizontal bilingual environment. In this experiment Grapheme substitution/deletion tasks and sensible/non-sensible Kulja reading tasks were administered to 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-year-old Korean-Chinese children growing up in a bilingual environment. Results were that Korean-Chinese children showed similar patterns of Hangul acquisition processes to Korean children but acquired grapheme-phoneme(G-P) correspondence earlier than Korean children. Hangul acquisition rates were 41.7%, 45.7%, 53% and 92.7% at age 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. Both Korean-Chinese and Korean children showed higher sensitivity for the final consonant than for the initial and middle consonants. Correlation between phoneme perception and reading was only significant among 6-year-olds in non-sensible Kulja reading tasks. Training in transforming ideographic Chinese to a phonetic system could effect early acquisition of G-P correspondence in Korean-Chinese children.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.223-243
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• 2017

A Hangul input method consists of two core components: key layout for primitive units (Natja), and binding rules to form more complex, composite units from primitive ones. However, careless design and implementation of an input method may result in ambiguity and inability of contiguous typing, when it comes to handle composite Hangul units. This is due to the collective nature of Hangul, namely, existence of implicit boundaries between units and syllables. This issue gets more challenging for the context-dependent 2-beolsik method, mobile environment having significantly fewer keys, and yet addition of the support for Old Hangul. For the sake of the management of complexity, we devised a system in which the binding rule is divided into two layers rather than one. Based on this concept, we implemented a tool program that, given the primitive units and their binding rules, generates input details of every composite unit and detects any potential ambiguity and conflicts. We presented the actual analysis result for Samsung Cheonji-in and KT Naratgeul, two of the most popular mobile Hangul input methods used in Korea.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.15-22
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• 2009

Our society is the information-oriented knowledge society which demands the ability how to use computers to all members of the society and is the aging society which the old people 60 or older exist plentifully. But in our society, there are rarely the computers for the old people which are considered their body limit. In this research, we proposed a grip type Hangul(Korean alphabet)interface which are designed under the consideration for the body limit of the old people. The comparison analysis of the proposed Hangul interface is accomplished with the keyboard(ME TOO SV01) for old persons and the key buttons of the old person cellular phone(LG KV-3900) as existing products. The comparison analysis consists of quantitative evaluation as measurements and qualitative evaluation as a survey of the satisfaction levels of 10 older persons. The results of the quantitative evaluation show that the proposed Hangul interface is the best one in the human-technology-design, the number of input buttons which requires moving of user's fingers, the maximum range of moving of user's fingers, and the number of the fingers to use text inputs. The survey results of the satisfaction levels show that interface shape, and input button's positions have best levels and they show that input button's gaps and ease of use have the second levels but their points are almost same with the best points of the keyboard.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.73-95
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• 2007

Causal relationships of kindergarteners' phonological awareness and processing to their ability to read words was investigated with the participation of 289 4- to 6-year-old children attending three kindergartens in Busan. Results showed gradual growth in reading ability with age. Children performed best in reading words and poorest in reading low frequency letters. They showed continuous development in skills of syllable deletion, phoneme substitution, phoneme insertion, phonological memory and naming. Discontinuous development was found in counting syllables. Longer syllables were difficult to count, and middle syllables of 3 syllable words were hard to delete. Children had poor perception of final consonants of Consonant-Vowel-Consonant syllables. Children's phonological awareness and processing were latent variables strongly related to ability to read words written in Hangul.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1230-1236
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• 1999

한글 폰트는 서로 상반된 장단점을 가진 조합형 폰트와 완성형 폰트로 구분된다. 완성형 폰트는 조합형과 비교하여 우수한 품질을 가지지만 폰트 제작에 더 많은 시간과 노력을 요구한다. 특히 완성형 폰트는 폰트내의 중복된 자소들의 정보를 중복해서 저장하므로 폰트 저장에 필요한 공간이 더 많이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 트루타입의 합성 글립(Composite Glyph)을 이용하여 이들 중복된 자소를 최소화한 완성형 폰트를 구성하였다. 실험 결과 생성된 완성형 트루타입 폰트는 기존 완성형 폰트와 유사한 고수준의 품질을 유지하면서, 샘체의 경우 기존 폰트의 57.6%, 명조체의 경우 73.0%의 저장공간을 절약할 수 있었다.Abstract Hangul fonts are classified into 2 categories, complete type and combination type which have their own strength and weakness. The complete type shows a high quality of fonts, while the combination type takes less time, efforts, and storage space to develop. Since the Hangul makes a syllable by combining consonants with vowels, the complete type has many duplicates and requires a large storage space to save them. We present a method that minimizes the duplicates of the complete type of the Hangul using the composite glyph of TrueType. New fonts had high quality and saved storage space, for example Sam saved 57.6% and Myungjo saved 73.0% compared to old.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.113-121
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• 1997

The maritime mobile communication system has been changing to the new system that is facilitated by the radio telex, digital selective calling and maritime satellite communications from the old system by the radio telegraphy and telephone according to the GMDSS. The NBDP using the ITA No.2 code is a useful media in the maritime communications and provides the procedures of telex. Also it can provide the efficient and more useful functions and the solutions for the incremental traffic requirements by adopting the Hangul code. So, in this paper, we proposed the new Korean NBDP code for the ITA No.2 code, designed and implemented the algorithm which is the processing of the Hangul NBDP code using the microprocessor.