Paid a visit to the 韓國學 用語/用例 辭典, and entered a simple query. And clicked search. Woops…

1. Don’t use IIS / ASP. They suck goat’s teats
2. Hitting the enter/return key is supposed to submit the form. Not reloading the page.
3. Don’t use EUC-KR. That encoding suxxors big time. And ‘English’ looks crappy in that encoding – not really the encoding’s fault, since euc-kr makes the browser default to Korean fonts, and Latin characters *do* suck in Korean fonts. Use Unicode, dudes. Which is exactly what you are using – sans charset declaration, wherever there is M-R, like here
4. M-R is nice, but be consistant, if you please. shi or si? oe or oi? Pick one each. Oh, and check both transcriptions. 二軍六衛 doesn’t transcribe to either yigunyugi or Yikunyuki. Really…
5. Making the HTML standards-compliant would be nice – and lose the tables, the <font> and other stylistic bits. After all, you seem to use CSS, too. <td class="font12" bgcolor=white align="center"><font face="굴림"> could be replaced with a better ‘font12′ class – or possibly forks of this class…

This looks like an ad-hoc effort handled the good ole Korean way I have learned to recognize, sometimes admire, but usually despise. Act first, plan later [and order lots of green tape and silicon]. Ah well, I still ould have liked something like that when I was a student…

Hat tip to The Marmot.

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