Enter a Korean name or road address below to get the standard romanized English spelling, based on South Korea's official Revised Romanization of Korean (국어의 로마자 표기법).
Enter a Korean name above to see the romanized spelling.
There is no official rule for romanizing surnames, so real-world usage (passports, etc.) varies widely. This is just one common example — always use whichever spelling you have officially registered.
Given-name syllables are romanized as written, without reflecting sound changes across syllables (e.g. 복 + 남 stays "Boknam", not "Bongnam"), per Article 4 of the Revised Romanization of Korean. Surnames and given names are capitalized and written with a space between them.
Enter a Korean address above to see the romanized, English-ordered address.
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This applies the standard sound-change rules used for Korean place names (linking, nasalization, liquidization — e.g. 종로 → Jongno, 왕십리 → Wangsimni), then reorders the parts into English address order (building number, road, district, city, province). It's a rule-based approximation and may not exactly match the official English notation on Korea's road-name address system (juso.go.kr) — please double-check there for official documents.
Romanization converts Korean text written in Hangul into the Latin alphabet so it can be read and typed by people and systems that don't use Hangul — needed for passports, international shipping addresses, academic citations, and official documents. This tool romanizes Korean names and road-name addresses following South Korea's Revised Romanization of Korean, the government-designated standard.
Names and addresses are first decomposed into their individual Hangul components (initial, medial, and final consonant/vowel), then mapped to Latin letters according to the Revised Romanization rules — including sound-change rules like assimilation and liaison that adjust spelling based on how adjacent syllables actually sound when spoken together, not just a literal letter-by-letter substitution. Addresses are additionally parsed into their administrative parts (province/city, district, neighborhood, road, building number) and reordered into the building-number-first Western address format.