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Outline of the proposalThe purpose of this proposal is in the amendment and the addition of someparts of the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1(UCS2).
(some amendments of Korean characters)There exist about 10 different coded character sets for Korean languagewhich have been adopted as national or industrial standards and are in use atpresent in the field of information interchange. These code sets differ in thearrangement and the number of characters. This is due to the features of theKorean character in its use.
Many researches have been made to establish the most reasonable codeset. The Standardization Committee of the DPRK propose to amend the partof Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1(UCS2) as follows in considerationof the compatibility with KPS 9566-97 already in use as a code standard forinformation interchange.
1) The committee propose the amendment(draft) of Korean combiningcharacters as in Annex A.
- It proposes to add 8 characters in the character subset of Koreancombining alphabets(1100-11FF), and to- Establish the same arrangement order of these 8 characters with that ofcharacters in KPS 9566-97.

2) It propose the arrangement order of Korean syllables (11,172 charactersranging from AC00-D7A3) . (Annex C)The arrangement order of modern Korean characters in ISO 10646-1(UCS2)is as follows.
- The order of the initial consonants

2This arrangement order is the same with that of KSC 5601.
But the arrangement order in KPS 9566-97 and GB 12052-89 is as follows.

The difference rate of the arrangement order of Korean characters in theexisting code sets is 5:5. This causes the difference in the encodingrepresentation (code value) of individual syllables and confusion and difficultyin the information interchange.
It is an important matter to solve this problem fairly and as fast as possibleto ensure the authority of ISO 10646-1/Unicode 2.0 as an international codestandard.
We are ready to make out a new “third proposal” for unification concerningthe character arrangement, if necessary, under the supervision of the jointtechnical committee and by cooperating with the work section.
3) It propose to add some special symbolic characters in KPS 9566-97 to theappropriate position in ISO 19646-1(UCS2).
80 special symbolic characters in KPS 9566-97(not included in ISO 106461(UCS2)) are shown in Annex B. These special symbolic characters shouldbe placed to the most appropriate position in the code table of ISO 106461(UCS2).
We can submit the proposal of the detailed adding position of each specialsymbolic character, if necessary.
4) It propose to add to the CJK Unified Ideographs code table of ISO 10646-1the encoding representations corresponding to each ideographs (KoreanHanja) in KPS 9566-97 and publish it.
The present G, T, J, K, V blocks include encoding representation togetherwith the examples of graphic characters(ideographs[Korean Hanja]) that arein the original standard of the character set. This means that the items

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relevant to Korean Hanja should be provided with the identificationcorresponding to KPS 9566-97 together with their encoding representation.
This proposal aims at the publication of the new version of the code table indue time with reference to KPS 9566-97.
5) The problem of unified description of the Korean character nameKorean character that have been developed from “HunMinJeongUm”began to be called as “Hangul” from the early 1990s. But in recent years,many similar terms such as “Hanmal”, “Hansik”, “Hanminjok” and so on havebeen made and are in use in South Korea. This resulted in themisunderstanding of the term “Hangul” as the character names that are usedin South Korea not the Korean character name.
In general a national language or character bears a name of its nation. Itis kind of a custom.
In consideration of such custom, this proposal suggests that all therepresentation “Hangul” in ISO/IEC 10646 changed to “Korean character”.
This amendment will conform with the worldwide recognition andidentification of Korean characters.
We do hope that the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 carefully consider andcheck the above-mentioned technical problems to be solved satisfactorily.
We promise an active cooperation with ISO in the project of solving theabove-mentioned technical problems.