I've been unable to find a concise answer anywhere else on the web. Since its only a few words, albeit crucial ones, that are in Korean I don't want to have to muck around with HLaTex or deviate from pdfLaTeX that I'm using at the moment.
[Tex/LaTex] How to get Korean (Hangul) characters to typeset in LaTeX
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Another package that does transcription is the xpinyin package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xpinyin. You can download it with Texlive 2012's build-in update utility. You need to compile your document with XeTeX or XeLaTeX, though. Luatex etc doesn't work.
For characters with multiple pronunciations such as 重 (can be pronounced zhòng or chóng), it will mark the default pronunciation in red in the pdf. Then there is the possibility to disambiguate it by typing \xpinyin{重}{chong2}
After disambiguating all such cases, one can set the colour of all multi-pronunciation items to black by specifying \xpinyinsetup{multiple={\color{black}}} in the document preamble.
Noto Sans Korean or original Source Han Sans should be OK. However, you should use a latest (unreleased) version of xdvipdfmx patched by Jiang Jiang not long ago.
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% !TEX program = XeLaTeX
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{NotoSansKR-Regular.otf}
% \setmainfont{SourceHanSansK-Regular.otf}
\begin{document}
뭇; 뭇; ᄻᆟᇫ
\end{document}
Precompiled xdvipdfmx:
- Win32 binary for TeX Live 2014:
xdvipdfmx.exe.xz - Mac OS binary for TeX Live 2014:
xdvipdfmx.zip - Linux 64bit binary for TeX Live 2014:
xdvipdfmx.lzma(SVN r36412)
Best Answer
Personally, I had a lot of trouble trying to get the CJK package to work. So I went on the KTUG website and found that they use the package kotex.
The good part about this was I was able to simply copy and paste hangul from websites into the LaTeX document and it worked fine. I only wanted a few words (my name) as well, so this option might be quicker and easier.