Announced by the Sahoe Kwahagwŏn, it is an adaptation of the older McCune–Reischauer system,[1] which it replaced in 1992,[2][3] and it was updated in 2002[3][4] and 2012.
Also, each letter of a name of Chinese character origin is written separately.
The given name's first initial is transcribed in a voiceless letter, even when it becomes resonant in pronunciation.
A name for administrative units is hyphenated from the placename proper:[5]: 7
Sound changes are not transcribed in the suffixes above:[5]: 4–5 Transcription of geographical names may be simplified by removing breves and by reducing initial double consonants to single consonants:[5]: 8