McCune-Reischauer romanization system

…transcription is that of the McCune-Reischauer system, which writes words more or less as they sound to the American ear. Despite its clumsiness, McCune-Reischauer is the system used in this description, and following that system the common surname is written Yi; it sounds like the English name of the letter…

The McCune-Reischauer transcription writes l or r in accordance with the pronunciation, which is ignored by the Hangul spelling and the Yale romanization: il ‘one’ but ir-wŏn ‘one Wŏn,’ nal ‘day’ and nal-lo ‘by the day’ but nar-e ‘on the day.’ There are problems involving initial…