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Chapter 3: Character Set Standards
7590-87). I have encountered the following errors and inconsistencies during my perusal
of the KS X 1002:2001 manual:
Page 2 of the manual states that rows 1 through 7 enumerate 615 characters, but I •
counted only 613. Page 19 of the standard seems to include 2 duplicate characters at
Row-Cell values 1-23 (<21 37>) and 1-9 (<21 7>): “X” and “TM.”
Page 2 of the manual also states that rows 37 through 54 contain 1,677 hangul, but I •
counted only 1,675.
I have not heard of a revised version of KS X 1002:2001, so I assume that these errors and
inconsistencies are still present in the standard, as well as its handwritten hanja. Although
this character set standard is not encoded according to any legacy encoding, its hanja did
serve as one of the many sources for Unicode’s URO.
KPS 9566-97
North Korea (ocially, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK;
/ joseon minju juui inmin gonghwaguk) de-
veloped their own character set standard in April of 1997 that enumerates hangul syl-
lables and hanja, designated KPS 9566-97 and entitled DPRK Standard Korean Graphic
Character Set for Information Interchange.
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It is similar to South Korea’s KS X 1001:2004 in
many respects, but also dierent in several ways. is standard enumerates a total of 8,259
characters. Table 3-78 lists the characters that make up KPS 9566-97.