e.edu!jshin
Subject: Hangul & Internet in Korea (main part 3/4)
Date: 25 Jun 1997 00:53:16 GMT
Summary: These 6-parts(intro.+cont.+4 main parts) posting answers questions 
         regarding how to use Hangul(Korean) on various platforms of computers
         with special emphasis on using Hangul with Internet services 
         (mail,WWW,news,etc) and status of the Internet in Korea including
         ISPs,Hangul newsgroups,web sites, and mailing lists.

Archive-name: cultures/korea/hangul-internet/part3
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   Hangul and Internet in Korea FAQ (part 3/4)
   ===========================================

18. My Mac is connected to the campus network at my
school and I have Hangul Talk,but I can't write and read
Hangul over the network.

Your communication s/w should be 8bit transparent. NCSA Telnet is not 8bit
trasnparent and you need MacBlueTelnet (originally made for Chinese. hangul
capable telnet client including input method for Hangul. thus no need to get
separate Hangul capable environment if what you want is just hangul terminal
emulator. Recently, however, I found Hangul input method included in MacBlue
Telnet has a couple of serious flaws making it less useful as a stand-alone
Hangul telnet client without system-wide Hangul support such as Korean
Language Kit(KLK) or Hangul Talk. Output has no problem, but input automata
for Hangul is misimplemented(complex vowels and complex consonants are
assigned separate keys instead of two key sequences assigned to single
vowels/consonants of which they're made). It still works well with input
method included in Hangul Talk/KLK. Hangul patched NCSA Telnet 2.7b5 and
NiftyTelnet 1.1(the latter is smaller and much faster than NCSA Telnet
according to Jeong-hyun Kim who patched both of them for Hangul) are
available in /pub/mac/internet-sw at Mac Hangul archive is 8bit transparent
telnet client to be used in Hangul-capable-environment. See Subject 5)) for
Mac hangul environment. Kim, Jeong-hyun also released Hangul NiftyZtelnet
0.5 which supports Zmodem download, a handy feature when getting files from
Korean on-line services(See Subject 33) 

To enter Hangul after connecting to a Unix host, you have to set terminal
8bit clean. See Subject 16 for terminal(stty) setting in Unix. 

You also have to tinker with Hangul font setting to display Hangul in
appropriate size and shape. 

Implementation of Telnet by InterConn is said to be 8bit clean,but I haven't
had chance to try it. Contact sales@interconn.com for further details. 

19. I'm using stevie as my Hangul editor, but it leaves a
garbage named "gmon.out". How can I remove it?

stevie is an out-of-date program. Get and install hangul elvis, instead.
Anyway, here's the solution. Easy. There are two solutions, one requires
reinstallation of stevie and the other is just setting one more environment
variable. The makefile of stevie has a C compiler flag "-pg", it makes
steive always leave a "gmon.out" in your current working directory. Simplely
removing the flag and recompiling it will fix the problem. [Contribution by 
Choi,Woohyung] 

Another one is to set your environment variable PROFDIR as null. Stevie will
get the PROFDIR variable and try to make gmon.out there. But it finds a null
entry and fails to create one. 

See Subject 3) for alternatives for Hangul editing under UNIX 

20. Does hlatex support single character blocks(Jaso)?

Yes, the newer version of htex supports Jaso printing.It's placed in 
/pub/hangul/tex at CAIR archive. [Contribution by Choi,Woohyung] Moreove, I
guess a single pass HLaTeX(HLaTeX 0,92e) supports a single phonetic
element(Jaso). 

21. How can I print out Hangul document(text) from
UNIX host?

There are a few ways. One is use Hangul LaTeX mentioned above. The other is
use hpscat-1.3.1(Hangul to Postscript translator) by Kang,Joongbin found at
most Hangul archives. hpscat does not require mastery of TeX/LaTeX,but
Hangul fonts(not included in hpscat distribution, but included in ked-old
hangul editor -distribution) should be downloaded to a postscript printer
before printing out Hangul document. Besides offerring Hangul printing,
hpscat has functionality to generate 3-column output which old version of
Encsript doesn't have. Note that paper size is hard coded in source code of
hpscat-1.3.1 for A4. A version of hpscat modified by me with several options
added including that for paper size specification was uploaded to CAIR
archive. It's in /pub/hangul/print at both CAIR I plan to further revise it
to make use of Hangul PS fonts freely available on the Net(those included in
HLaTeX0.9x and those made from metafont source and included in HPS by
Oh,Sunggyu at hanmaum@ara.kaist.ac.kr.). 

Lee,YongJae at setup@shiva.snu.ac.kr modified a2ps v 4.3(ASCII to PS
translator) to make another Hangul to PS translator, h2ps using PS type 1
Hangul font(n-byte Hangul encoding) of his own making. PS file generated by
h2ps contains definition for PS Type1 Hangul font, so that there's no need
to download Hangul font. Look of Hangul font, however, is very different
from what most of you are familiar with and English font used in main-text
is variable width Times-Roman instead of fixed width Courier in hpscat. You
can get it at ftp://shiva.snu.ac.kr/pub/hangul/utilities 

Choi, Jun Ho (junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr) made another modification to a2ps which
uses Hangul Postscript fonts(in Wansung encoding) included in HLaTeX
0.9x(See Subject 11 for HLaTeX). With nh2ps, you can print Hanja as well as
Hangul See http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker/work/nh2ps/ for more details. It's
uploaded to hangul/incoming of CAIR archive as well. 

Kim, Joong-goo(jgkim@hjsun.postech.ac.kr) at POSTECH made a KSC 5601 text to
PS translator using HLaTeX(two-pass version). source of a greatly enhanced
version, han2ps.unix.c (tested on SGI Irix 5.x and Sun Solaris 2.4, but
should work on most Unix-like OS) by Lim, Dongchul is avaiable at Hana
archive 

Song,Jaekyung,the author of Hanterm, also made hlpr(another KSC 5601 to PS
translator) of which SUN binary(perhaps for SUN OS 4.x) 

Ryu, Byeong-soon at bsryu@paradise.kaist.ac.kr made a utility, hpr to print
out Hangul text files with PCL printer (HP Laser Jet series) with built-in
Hangul fonts. See http://mind.kaist.ac.kr/bsryu/hpr.html for details. 

You may preview a Postscript file generated by hpscat,han2ps,nh2ps,h2ps, and
han2ps on the screen and print it out to a non-Postscript printer using 
Ghostscript. In case of 'hpscat', you need to modify 'gs_init.ps' for
ghostscript as described in 'README.jshin' in a version of hpscat modified
by me. Instead of modifying gs_init.ps, you may add fonts used by hpscat and
other Hangul to text programs to font definition files in ghostscript to get
GS to automatically load Hangul fonts. For more detail on this, refer to GS
documents. 

According to Lee,Kumsup (at klee@math.umn.edu) CNPRINT is a utility to print
with Postscript printer Korean(KSC-5601 and Unicode) plain text document as
well as those in Japanese and Chinese with a set of useful features
including vertical print. It works under not only Unix but also VAX/VMS and
MS-DOS. Each version is available in /software/unix/print 
/software/vms/print, /software/dos/print respectively at ftp.ifcss.org. 

What you have to get are 

 o UNIX : cnprint260.tar.gz, cnprint260.README, fonts, HBF files 
 o VMS : cnprint260.doc, cnprint260.exe, fonts, HBF files 
 o DOS : cnprint.doc, cnprint.zip, fonts, HBF files 

Hangul and KSC Hanja fonts are in the directory /pub/software/fonts/misc/hbf
and Hangul and Hanja Unicode(KSC 5608?) fonts in 
/pub/software/fonts/unicode/hbf at ftp.ifcss.org 

neurophys.wisc.edu has in public.cn directory the same file except fonts and
also the latest bug-fix. Other mirror sites are ftp://cnd.org/pub/software 

Setting up CNPRINT should not be so difficult if you read
cnprint.help(included in cnprint260.tar.gz or cnprint.hlp in DOS version
included in cnprint.zip) carefully, but at first sight it may appear quite
daunting. For printing Hangul only, hpscat may be a lot simpler than cnprint
although cnprint offers much more sophistigated functionalities including
run-time option for paper size and vertical printing(Chong-so , Sero-ssu-gi)
not found in hpscat. 

Please, be noted that all these methods except for CNPRINT can be used with
non-postscript printer as well if you have ghostscript, public domain
postscript interpreter available at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/. 

Kwon, Jong Uk at jukwon@nuclina.hoseo.ac.kr collected and put on the Web a
great deal of information on Hangul printing in Unix at 
http://nuclina.hoseo.ac.kr/ps/. 

For pringint Hangul web pages with Netscape under Unix, see Subject 36. 

22. What's the Internet domain name for Korea and
schools in Korea?

The domain name for Korea(South) is KR and that for North Korea is KP
although Internet doesn't seem to have a single host in North Korea. Within
KR domain, there are several 2nd level domains. 

 o AC for Academic Institutions 
 o CO for commercial organizations 
 o NM for Network Management 
 o GO for government agencies 
 o RE for Research institutions 
 o OR for not-for-profit organization 

The 3rd level domain names are usually abbrebiation/name for institutions. 

KR domain statistics is available from Korea Network Informatin
Center(KRNIC) at http://www.krnic.net. KRNIC aims to be the primary contact
point for inquires about Internet in Korea. And indeed a lot of information
can be retrieved there using WWW,FTP and Gopher. KR domain statistics used
to be posted periodically to Han.net.announce, but it's not posted any more.

Besides, you may use 'nslookup' or 'host' program to get list of hosts in KR
domain or its subdomains. 

Enclosed is KR domain statistics with domains of less than 500 hosts
deleted. 

KR DOMAIN HOST STATISTICS  (95.09.06)  
 
  - Automatically generated by DDT at ns.krnic.net  
  - Past results can be found at ftp://ftp.krnic.net/krnic/stats
 
Domain-manager (domain@krnic.net) 
Korea Network Information Center 
 
    Domain Name            Host Count   Ratio (%) 
    =====================  ==========   ========= 
                    kr       34768     100.00  
                 co.kr       14334      41.23  
                 ac.kr       13095      37.66  
                 re.kr        6134      17.64  
                 nm.kr        1029       2.96   
                 or.kr          89       0.26  
                 go.kr          86       0.25  
         samsung.co.kr        5459      15.70 
           kaist.ac.kr        3299       9.49  (Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci.& Tech)
            etri.re.kr        3034       8.73  (Elec. Telecomm. Res.  Inst.)
           cheil.co.kr        1927       5.54  
           kotel.co.kr        1573       4.52  (Korea Telecom.)
         postech.ac.kr        1567       4.51  (Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Tech.)
        goldstar.co.kr        1523       4.38 
             snu.ac.kr        1228       3.53  (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
          sogang.ac.kr         934       2.69  (Sogang Univ.)
          kornet.nm.kr         869       2.50 
          yonsei.ac.kr         684       1.97  (Yonsei Univ.)
       kyungpook.ac.kr         656       1.89  (Kyungpook Nat'l Univ.)
            inha.ac.kr         616       1.77  (Inha Univ.)
            seri.re.kr         597       1.72  (System Eng. Res.  Inst.)
             cau.ac.kr         584       1.68  
        yeungnam.ac.kr         537       1.54  (Yeungnam Univ.)   



23. Is there any vendor dealing in Korean s/w in the US?

Contribution by kskim@phobos.ucs.umass.edu 

There's a s/w dealer in Virginia which deals in a variety of Korean
softwares including HWP 2.5 for DOS, HWP 3.0 for DOS, HWP 3.0 for Windows,
Hangul Windows 3.1, Geul Kol Ji Gi (Korean font for windows 3.x), and etc. 

   K & C Technology Corporation
   6347 Columbia Pike
   Falls Church, VA 22041
   (Barcroft Plaza Shopping Mall)
   Tel. (703) 642-8422
   Fax. (703) 642-8463

Hanme Soft International(for Hanme Hangul for Windows) can be reached at 
info@hanmesoft.com or at support@www.hanmesoft.co.kr or you may try their
opened web pages at http://www.hanmesoft.com. Han Soft,the vendor of Han
Korean Kit for Mac opened its web page at http://www.io.com/~hansoft 

There seem to be quite many authorized dealers of Hanme Hangul for Windows
3.1 and Hanme Hangul for Windows 95 in the US including those listed below. 

      TIAC C&C CORPORATION
      ADDRESS:123 Camino De La Reina #200 North, 
              San Diego, CA 92108-3002, 
      FAX: (619) 220-7959
      TEL: (619)220-5277
      EMAIL: june@korea.com

      ABM Linguistic Applications, Inc.
      Phone:  (408) 645-7892
      e-mail: DRZG28A@prodigy.com
      url: http://www.mbay.net/~abm

According to MathDude@aol.com, 
Hangul Talk and other Mac software for Hangul are dealt in by GTA(Global
Tech Alliances) in LA. Contact them at TEL: (213) 427-4072 or FAX: (213)
427-4077. Recenlty, I found that Asia Soft(http://www.asiasoft.com,
1-800--882-8856) also deals in Korean software for Mac and MS-Windows
including Hangul Talk, Korean version of Illustrator 5.0, Quark Xpress,Page
MakerKorean MS-Windows,Korean MS-Office, and so forth. Jim Kingsbury at
Adobe passed on to me the information about another vendoer with a great
collection of Korean S/W including DTP(desk top publishing) program and
Hangul fonts, Computer Tower(http://www.computower.com,909-594-7028). 

Listed below are software dealers in the US selling product of Microsoft
Korea(Hangul MS-Windows 3.1/95/NT, Hangul MS-Word, Hangul MS Office, etc).
Some of them deal in products of other Hangul software company like Hangul &
Computer and Hanme soft as well. In addition, Aloha Web for Koreans at
http://www.korean-hawaii.com has information for some Hangul softwares
including PC-DIC from Jung's soft. [Contribution by Charles A. Tustison at
hanmeint@wolfenet.com.] 

Computer Plus
3850 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90010-3206
213-480-6777


Long Branch Systems
2560 W Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90006-2972
213-380-5555

Uptown Computer Inc
559 S Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA  90020-4207
213-389-0000

Ace Computer Systems
18012 Pioneer Blvd
Artesia, CA  90701-3905
310-402-7779

ADB Computers
Los Angeles,CA
213-365-0048 


Top Microsystems
3320 Victor Ct
Santa Clara, CA  95054-2316
408-980-9813

Pishon Technology Inc
1367 Mckenzie Ave
Los Altos, CA  94024-5629
415-964-6617

Q Computer
8550 Garden Grove Blvd
Garden Grove, CA  92644-1188
714-638-7043

Universal Electronics
12200 E Cornell Ave
Aurora, CO  80014-3383
303-337-1588

Systemsoft Florida
5070 Highway A1a
Vero Beach, FL  32963-1400
407-234-5598

Compuwerks Inc
4811 N Elston Ave
Chicago, IL  60630-2520
312-736-0265

DSI Computer Group, Inc.
4785 Dorsey Hall Drive, Suite 121
Ellicott City, MD 21042
410-995-5800
301-621-5050 (Metro)
410-995-5802 (Fax)
E-mail to dsicom@ipo.net


Safenet Communications
121 Broad Ave
Palisades Park, NJ  07650-1441
201-461-4377

Digital Computer Systems
7226 Broadway
Flushing, NY  11372-6331
718-424-5417

Pinetech Computer System Corp
1170 Broadway
New York, NY  10001-7507
212-481-8482

Computer One Five Three
7032 Termnlsq
Upper Darby, PA  19082
610-734-0153


There may be other Korean s/w dealers especially in NYC,LA, or Chicago, and
Washington DC. In addition, there's at least one mail-order dealer for
Korean software in Korea. Refer to 
http://korea.directory.co.kr/shopping/software/software.html. [Contribution
by faraday@hotmail.com] 

Recently, I received a letter from Don Collier at Techflow Pty
Ltd(don@techflow.com.au) in Australia about his company selling Korean
software for Mac and MS Windows. Here's a detail. Among their products are
Korean single byte fonts ( 5 true type and type1 fonts) for Mac and
MS-Windows, Laser Korean for Mac and Laser Korean for Win which can be used
with programs that d
