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How To view Korean

Even if your computer is running the English edition of Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0, you may browse Korean web pages using Internet Explorer 3.0  or later or using Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later. Some websites advise that in order to view Korean text, you must install a third-party add-on for Windows or a special multilingual web browser. This advice is no longer correct. It is now possible to both browse and enter text in Korean using any language version of Windows by installing language packs provided by Microsoft. We recommend using these language packs rather than installing add-on products which modify Windows at a low level and may cause your system to be less reliable.

To download the Korean Input Methods and Language Packs, visit the Microsoft Global IME page. (or download here!!!) The abbreviation "IME" refers to "Input Method Editor", which is the term Microsoft uses for that program which enables East Asian text to be typed from a standard keyboard.    

MS Internet Explorer:

To view Korean, you must have Global IME or other Korean language support software installed and have the encoding enabled (View-Encoding-Korean in the Menu Bar). Use the following link to download the software to view & enter Korean:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/ime5_win32/en/ime5_win32.htm

click the link

you can find Microsoft Global IME 5.01

you can choose Miscrosoft Global IME 5.01 for Korean with language Pack

click Next

and go to next again

If computer finishes download, it will install the software automatically.

If computer wants to be restarted, just click yes.

After loading the web browser go to View menu and find Encoding command

Then you can check Korean. Now you can view Korean text.

If you want to input Korean language, click EN button at the right bottom of the window. If you click that button again you can change it English to Korean. After that you see input button pops up. If you change character “A” to . “ga”(in korean)  you can input Korean

 

For Netscape:

Download unionway first, then install the software. If you install MS IME, then you can only read Korean.

http://www.unionway.com/ts/index.html

After installing the Korean language pack and rebooting your machine, Netscape Navigator 4.0 users can view Korean web pages by pulling down the Preferences menu, selecting Appearances, selecting Fonts, and then selecting either the font gulimche or batangche as both the fixed and proportional font for the Korean encoding. Then pull down the View menu, select Encoding, and then Korean (Auto-Detect).

or you can get more detailed instruction at 

http://people.netscape.com/ftang/communicatorfont.html

 

Want more on Hangul and Internet in Korean?

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jshin/faq/