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Gallery of Rice Cakes from Seoul's 7th International Tteok Fair
@roboppy: Believe me, it's confusing here, especially since you sometimes run across signs that still use the old system. On the island I live on, half the signs are in the old system, half are in the new system. It's hilarious.
I think you *should* stick with your spelling for now for consistency, as you said, but I was just more trying to better inform you. :)
Gallery of Rice Cakes from Seoul's 7th International Tteok Fair
Sometimes the more traditional organizations in Korea use the "old fashioned" spellings, due to their association with "traditional Korea". That's what I assume is the case there.
That's a relatively accurate guide, yes. When the revised romanization was put into place, it changed the spelling of most things in Korea. Where I live in Korea, Jindo, used to be Chindo. Daegu was Taegu. Gwangju was Kwangju. Generally, Ts became Ds, Ch became J, Kw became G, among many other changes, including vowels. I confirmed the Ddeok spelling with some of my Korean co-workers today who say that yes, Ddeok is how it should be spelled these days. 떡 is how the word is written in Korean. That translates to "ddeog", but under the revised romanization, words that traditionally have the G symbol at the end of a word had the sound changed to a K. So, for instance, a city nearby me used to be written "Mogpo", but it's now written "Mokpo", despite the fact that the pronunciation hasn't changed.
Sorry if that's all confusing!
Gallery of Rice Cakes from Seoul's 7th International Tteok Fair
Sorry, but this has kind of been driving me nuts when I've seen it in your posts about this fair. Tteok is an older spelling, before the revised romanization system that Korea now uses was put into use. The way the word is spelled these days is Ddeok, or even Ddokk.
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I'm eating mine as I read this too.