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[JHoul088]

i have an HP laptop, all english of course. looking to get a keyboard with english/korean characters (want to practice writing), does anyone have any ideas? i talked to HP about replacing my laptop keyboard with a korean one, but its not cheap.

...any other suggestions?

thanks.

[blackjack]

external usb one for 10,000?

Or you can get some stickers

[Murakano]

just buy the stickers (has both English/Korean on) from Link or a large stationary store.

[Steffie183]

[Ruthdes]

[Bucky]

Kyobo Book Centre at Gwanghwamun also sells the stickers.

[young_clinton]

When I replaced the Korean operating system on my Samsung laptop with an English one, all of a sudden my Korean keyboard stopped writing in Korean. With that said you will need to install a Korean operating system or an operating system like Windows 7 Professional that allows you to switch languages the operating system runs on in addition to buying a Korean keyboard.

[PatrickGHBusan]

you can type in Korean with an English keyboard by simply enabling the input system in your Windows OS.

What you can do then is print out the keyboard layout and memorize the keys (this is not that hard) or buy a transparent cover.

You can also buy an English-Korean keyboard and plug it in.

Lots of options.

[Troglodyte]

The physical keyboard should be almost identical. I think that the only differences between the korean and american keyboards is a key next to the space-bar for quick switching alphabets (european keyboards also have it).

What is different is in Windows (or whatever operating system your're using). You can set it to a specific language and alphabet input. You can even set it to use multiple alphabets/layouts. Then you use the ALT-SHIFT together to switch between them. Remember as well, that if your keyboard is set to a specific language, many programs like MS Office will automatically switch the spell checker to that language. So, it's not ideal to ONLY use the korean layout with the alphabet switching button. You are better off setting TWO keyboard layouts and using ALT-SHIFT to switch back and forth.

[JHoul088]

awesome. thanks guys. looks like the stickers are the best way to go.

one other quick question for the computer impaired here hehe... I've switched the input language in windows to korean, but my text is still in english. what am i missing?? the language bar is up, KO Korean is appearing but no korean text.

any more advice appreciated

[UknowsI]

You can write with both latin letters and hangul with Korean keyboard layout. The language bar should have a button which says "A Han/Eng", push that one to switch in between. I can also switch by pushing AltGr on my keyboard. Also you might want to make sure that you installed MicrosoftIME Korean. There are a few different options when installing the Korean keyboard layout, and for me not all of them work.

Personally I have learned the hangul keyboard layout without stickers, and I think it has been faster for me this way since I've been forced to touch type. It was a little bit frustrating in the beginning though.

[JHoul088]

ahhh got it! Thanks for all your help guys!

감사 함니다!!!

[Troglodyte]

For anyone who doesn't have the AltGr button labelled as such (i think most US keyboards don't have it labelled like that), it's the right ALT key. On many keyboards, it's used to switch between two character sets.

[revelation2221]

As far as stickers go, do not, under any circumstances, buy the thick (1-1.5mm) sticker for a laptop keyboard. They'll touch your screen when your close your computer, and will damage your screen. If you already put the stickers on, remove them, and buy flat ones. I had a friend who did that. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to catch it before it caused much damage, but even after a few weeks you could see it was already beginning to wear on the screen.