Computing in Korean - Korean Studies
Read and Write Korean on the Net
For Mac
Apple's Korean Language Kit (for systems OS 7.x and 8.x) is probably still available in some computer stores, and a Language Kit updater for OS 8.x can be downloaded from Apple's support site.
However, you are better off installing one of the newer operating systems such as OS 9 or X which include all three East Asian language kits as well as Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabian, etc.
For Windows 98
- Internet
Explorer 3.0 or higher:
Go to the Microsoft information page at
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/Features/ime.asp
and download and install the program called "Global IME".
* At the end of the above page, there is a link called
"download Global IME". - For Netscape Navigator (Communicator) 4.0 or higher :
You can use the above program "Global IME" to view Korean.
But you can't type Korean in.
Install the program and then do the followings:
Click Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts
For the encoding: Korean
Variable Width Font: GulimChe
Fixed Width Font: GulimChe
If you want to type Korean in, then you need a third party
application such as AsianSuite 97 and NJStar Communicator.
You can download a 60 day trial version of AisanSuite from
www.unionway.com and a 30 day trial version of NJStar Communicator from www.njstar.com .
However, I suggest that you change into Internet Explorer
since it supports Korean much better than Netscape.
You can also use Global IME in MS Word 2000 to view and write Korean.
Windows 2000 & XP
Korean is built into Windows 2000 & XP and can be implemented at the time of installation or post-installation. To view and type Korean, you may have to do followings:
- Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options
- In the Regional Options dialogue, click the 'General' tab.
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- Settings for the current user: Leave your current setting. (However, some Korean CD-programs are viewable only in the Korean setting. In these cases, you can change the language setting into Korean. )
- Lanugage Settings for the system: Choose Korean and any other languages you want to use
- In the Regional Options dialogue, click the 'Input Locales ' tab.
- Click the 'Add ' button, and choose Korean and any other languages you want to use and click 'OK'.
- Highlight 'Korean'
under 'Input language', and
then click the 'IME Settings'
button, and choose the followings and click 'OK'.
- Show Hanja conversion button(H)
- 2 Beolsik(2)
- Delete by Jaso unit(D)
** There is an additional Multi-Language set of 'Tools' that can be acquired as an adjunct to Office 2000 which has things like Dictionaries, Spell-checkers, Grammar Checkers, Thesauruses, Consistency Checkers etc.