The Cyrillization of Korean is the transcribing and transliterating the Korean language into the Cyrillic alphabet. The main cyrillization system in use is the Kontsevich system (Систе́ма Конце́вича). The Kontsevich system was created by the Soviet-Russian scholar Lev Kontsevich (Лев Конце́вич) in the 1950s based on the earlier transliteration system designed by Aleksandr Kholodovich (Алекса́ндр Холодо́вич).

Features

Cyrillization systems for Korean were developed domestically in both North Korea (where it has been proposed to replace the current script in the past) and South Korea; Kontsevich carried out work on the systemization of these rules. In contrast with some systems of Romanization of Korean, the transcription is based primarily on the pronunciation of a word, rather than on its spelling.

Consonants

Initial

Final

Medial consonant rules

Some letters are transcribed differently in the middle of a word when following certain other letters.

Vowels

Examples