Editing McCune–Reischauer (section)

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[[File:Taejon road sign.jpg|thumb|A road sign for [[Daejeon]] ({{lang|ko|대전}}), written in McCune–Reischauer: "Taejŏn" (2023)]]
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'''McCune–Reischauer romanization''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|k|j|uː|n|_|ˈ|r|aɪ|ʃ|aʊ|.|ər}} {{respell|mə|KEWN|_|RYSHE|ow|ər}}) is one of the two most widely used [[Korean-language]] [[Romanization of Korean|romanization systems]]. The system was first published in 1939 by [[George M. McCune]] and [[Edwin O. Reischauer]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lee |first=Sang-il |title=On Korean Romanization |journal=The Korean Language in America |volume=8 |year=2003 |pages=407–421 |publisher= |jstor=42922825 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42922825}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://koreanstudies.com/DOCS/McCune-Reischauer_1961.pdf |title=Tables of the McCune-Reischauer System for the Romanization of Korean|year=1961|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Korea Branch|pages=121}}</ref>

According to Reischauer, McCune "persuaded the American [[Army Map Service]] to adopt [the McCune–Reischauer system], and through the [[Korean War]] it became the foundation for most current Romanizations of Korean place names."<ref>{{cite book |last=Reischauer |first=Edwin O. |year=1986 |title=My Life between Japan and America |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |page=70 |isbn=0-06-039054-9}}</ref>

[[Romanization of Korean (North Korean system)|A variant of McCune–Reischauer]] is used as the official system in [[North Korea]]. [[#ALA-LC variant|Another variant]] is currently used for standard romanization library catalogs in [[North America]]. On the other hand, [[South Korea]] formerly used [[#South Korean variant|yet another variant]] as its official system from 1984 to 2000, but replaced it with the [[Revised Romanization of Korean]] in 2000.