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        RFC 1557:

        Title:      Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages
        Author:     U. Choi, K. Chon & H. Park
        Mailbox:    uhhyung@kaist.ac.kr, chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr,
                    hjpark@dino.media.co.kr 
        Pages:      5
        Characters: 8,736
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


This document describes the encoding method being used to represent
Korean characters in both header and body part of the Internet mail
messages.  This encoding method was specified in 1991, and has since
then been used.  It has now widely being used in Korean IP networks.
This document also describes the name of the encoding method which is
to be used in order to match the message header and body format of
MIME.  This document describes only the encoding method for plain
text.  Other text subtypes, rich text and similar forms of text, are
beyond the scope of this document.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute