NTC's Compact Korean and English Dictionary

by Gene S. Rhie and Bev J. D. Jones

Book Overview

Includes 20,000 entries with Korean words in romanized Korean and Korean characters. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844283606
• ISBN13: 9780844283609
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

In defense of the romanization

Several reviews here assume too much about what new students of Korean need to know. There is nothing wrong with the romanization since the hangul is right next to it. (Characters added might have been helpful as well.) Hangul is not phonetic. The romanization helps students who are outside a 'Korean is spoken here' area avoid serious errors. There are lots of pronunciation patterns that are made easier by the romanization.

This book is great for people who want to learn Korean

I received this book the other day and in my opinion it was everything I hoped it would be. It suprised me because unlike other books it supplied with approximately 20,000 common words both in Korean and English reference. Those of you who are learning Korean or English would find this a great help.

A very complete Korean-English-Korean dictionary.

I found the text to really hold up to high standards as far as having fairly clear translations, also all words are written in the Korean character set as well as the translated phonetic form. It also includes a nice summary of the transcription system to make learning easier.