Within Request for Comment 1577 ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1557.txt RFC1577]), a method referred to as ISO-2022-KR for encoding Korean characters in emails was described.

A international Unicode standard contains special characters for representing a Korean language in the native Hangul phonetic system. It likewise has attempted, using the select few tilt, to produce a unified CJK character set that could represent Chinese (Hanzi) when well as a Japanese (Kanji) and Korean (Hanja) derivatives of this script through the Han unification process.