Cyrillization of Korean
The Kontsevich system is a cyrillization system for the Korean language and currently the main system of transcribing and transliterating Korean words into the Cyrillic alphabet. The Kontsevich system was created by the Soviet-Russian scholar Lev Kontsevich in the 1950s based on the earlier transliteration system designed by Aleksandr Kholodovich.Features
Cyrillization systems for Korean were developed domestically in both North Korea and South Korea; Kontsevich carried out work on the systemization of these rules. In contrast with some systems of romanization of Korean, the transcription is based primarily on the pronunciation of a word, rather than on its spelling.Consonants
Initial
Final
Some letters are transcribed differently in the middle of a word when following certain other letters.Vowels
Examples
