14 Jun 2002

The Korean Keyboard
www.fivedeck.com, Seaside, CA, USA
Self-description: "This web site offers a tutorial for learning how to type in Korean - after obtaining the right software and learning the Hangul characters. Viewing this site does not require any Korean language software."
Supplied note: "[The site] will be very useful for non-native Hangul students in learning to negotiate a computer keyboard in Hangul."
Site contents: A strategy for memorizing the keyboard; Patterns in the keyboard layout; Tips for practice and application; A worksheet for practicing keyboard knowledge; Links: (Korean Keyboard Layouts, Korean Software [incl. printing software], Learning Hangul & Korean Words).
[The author of the site, Mr. Brian Hobbs is an officer of the US Air Force with specialty in East Asian Languages and Culture - Japanese, Chinese and now Korean. He taught at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan; Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA; US Air Force Academy, and is to move soon to the Korea Air Force Academy. The site has migrated from its earlier address at home.earthlink.net/~fivedeck where it ranked no 1. on the search engine www.google.com for 'Korean keyboard' and 'Korean typing' - ed.]
URL http://www.fivedeck.com/kboard.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Brian Hobbs (fivedeck@earthlink.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30