SKATS stands for Standard Korean Alphabet Transliteration System. It is also known as Korean morse equivalents. Despite the name, SKATS is not a true transliteration system.

In SKATS, each Korean letter is assigned one Roman (English type) letter, which is not chosen because of the sounds the letters make, but rather because they have the same morse code symbol. If a Korean morse code operator were to transmit a Korean message in morse, and an English speaking morse code operator heard the message, what he would write down is SKATS. In order to read SKATS, one must know Korean and know SKATS. Knowledge of English is not required.

The advantage of SKATS is the letter-perfect accuracy in conveying the Korean message, something that would be lost, were romanisations such as RR or McCune-Reischauer used. SKATS dates back to the days before Korean keyboards gained widespread acceptance, so it was a way for westerners who knew Korean to accurately produce the Korean language on a typewriter or keyboard. The primary users of SKATS are government departments who are interested in letter-to-letter accuracy. The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ...

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When using SKATS it is important to remember not to read the letters as they sound in English, but to read them as they sound in SKATS.

The letters are written left to right as in standard written English. The correct form is to put one space between syllables and two spaces between words, but this often varies from one user to another.

Double consonants and double or triple vowels are written the same way – each letter in the same order as if it were written in hangul.

Sample sentence

SKATS: LUM CU LE  MEG KUGG BE.

Hangul: 김치가 맛있다.

Revised romanisation: Gimchiga masitta.

English: “Kimchi is delicious.”

The included chart omits the Korean equivalent of the English nasal "m" (the 5th Korean consonant) which is aptly abbreviated "M" in SKATS.