PHPackages                             liopic/korean-romanizer - PHPackages - PHPackages  [Skip to content](#main-content)[PHPackages](/)[Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Leaderboard](/leaderboard)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)[Collections](/collections)[Log in](/login)[Sign up](/register)

1. [Directory](/)
2. /
3. [Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility)
4. /
5. liopic/korean-romanizer

ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility)

liopic/korean-romanizer
=======================

Library to romanize Korean in UTF-8 format

1.0(11y ago)18162.4k↓18.5%2MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Jan 20Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/liopic/php-Korean-romanizer)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/liopic/korean-romanizer)[ Docs](https://github.com/liopic/php-Korean-romanizer)[ RSS](/packages/liopic-korean-romanizer/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (1)Versions (2)Used By (0)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/104f82c2084c6241f75ca66e6a51935586ab3f79d2e37f727bc793f33a8d0994/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6c696f7069632f7068702d4b6f7265616e2d726f6d616e697a65722e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/liopic/php-Korean-romanizer)[![SensioLabsInsight](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1f5dbf68b250702524f08cf99143047e7cca9fc7deb641c630c471b685f01d02/68747470733a2f2f696e73696768742e73656e73696f6c6162732e636f6d2f70726f6a656374732f31393263363261342d656339612d346138362d613632352d3066616334386130653737302f6d696e692e706e67)](https://insight.sensiolabs.com/projects/192c62a4-ec9a-4a86-a625-0fac48a0e770)[![Code Climate](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b4facfcc1bf57e8ad1c4fc9e2f2ed8ce91178c7d8bb8f128b99c26b74cbff9de/68747470733a2f2f636f6465636c696d6174652e636f6d2f6769746875622f6c696f7069632f7068702d4b6f7265616e2d726f6d616e697a65722f6261646765732f6770612e737667)](https://codeclimate.com/github/liopic/php-Korean-romanizer)[![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/70160f316ee328fd2596016ba5e1f6debc5656e651fc6aea664a304051aa6982/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f6c696f7069632f6b6f7265616e2d726f6d616e697a65722f762f737461626c652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/liopic/korean-romanizer)[![Monthly Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/48f263ed9a3c7c72dea27053c6708e56d797e1babd50566329be53f6286ca18e/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f6c696f7069632f6b6f7265616e2d726f6d616e697a65722f642f6d6f6e74686c792e706e67)](https://packagist.org/packages/liopic/korean-romanizer)[![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5ff5207c2ebc76f1e38d4d46fd33fe952a30b94ff7d8f78f10ad28f53354c68a/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f6c696f7069632f6b6f7265616e2d726f6d616e697a65722f6c6963656e73652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/liopic/korean-romanizer)

korean-romanizer
================

[](#korean-romanizer)

PHP 5.4+ library to romanize Korean in UTF-8 format.

Description
===========

[](#description)

Uses the **"[Revised Romanization of Korean (국어의 로마자 표기법)](http://www.korean.go.kr/eng/roman/roman.jsp)"** which is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea proclaimed by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean).

Notice that this is different from **transliteration**, which comes implemented in PHP's [intl extension](http://php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php) ([Transliterator class](http://php.net/manual/en/class.transliterator.php)). For example, "왕십리" subway stop is transliterated as "wangsibli" but romanized as "wangsimni" (which is closer to the Korean pronuntiation).

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

First add this library as requirement in your composer.json file. If you are not familiar with Composer, please read [its documentation](https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md) first.

```
{
  "require": {
    "liopic/korean-romanizer": "~1.0"
  }
}

```

Then create a new KoreanRomanizer\\Romanizer() instance with the Korean text in UTF-8 you want to romanize. For example:

```
require "vendor/autoload.php";

$example = new KoreanRomanizer\Romanizer("안녕 하세요");
echo $example->romanize(); //Displays "annyeong haseyo"

```

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4136d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6429f9c2e351a0a061e1214bdbc4fca72d847cb40bcd0d8d4a7e1a1ed5314fc5?d=identicon)[liopic](/maintainers/liopic)

---

Top Contributors

[![liopic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/594458?v=4)](https://github.com/liopic "liopic (64 commits)")

---

Tags

koreanromanizationromanizehangulhangeulhangugeo

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/liopic-korean-romanizer/health.svg)

```
[![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/liopic-korean-romanizer/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/liopic-korean-romanizer)
```

###  Alternatives

[ashtokalo/php-translit

PHP library to convert text from one script to another.

40146.2k1](/packages/ashtokalo-php-translit)[sanskrit/sanscript

Transliteration library for Sanskrit and other Indian languages.

162.9k](/packages/sanskrit-sanscript)[melchiorkokernoot/laravel-autowire-config

Allows configuration injection through auto-wired constructor arguments

1311.7k](/packages/melchiorkokernoot-laravel-autowire-config)

PHPackages © 2026

[Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)