On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 1:43:55 PM UTC-7, quad...@gmail.com wrote:

The patent by Pyung Woo Kong for a Korean typewriter showed one where one group
of keys hit the paper a space earlier than the other group. Later Korean typewriters instead had the shifted characters displaced to the left, so that
the initial and final forms of the same consonant could be on the same key.

The instruction manual for the VariTyper, available on the Internet Archive, includes an illustration of a Korean language type-sleeve for that machine near
the beginning.

https://archive.org/details/VariTyperOperatorsInstructionsAndReferenceManualVT3217

IBM made Katakana elements, Thai-language elements, and Inuktitut elements for
its Selectric typewriters, as well as Hebrew and Arabic elements for a special
version that typed from right to left.

But while they did not, as far as I know, make a Korean-language Selectric element, in an exhibit of Korean-language typewriters in the King Sejong museum, there apparently are Korean Selectric elements - presumably manufactured by a Korean company -

on display.

http://blog.daum.net/bae6607/7847825?nil_alliance=0000e&srchid=IIMq7ATG100

It's in the seventh picture from the bottom, although I had to reload the page
before it would display.

Would anyone have more information on this attempt to permit Korean to be typed
on a typewriter without modifications to typehead movement?

I have now found another web site with pictures of the Korean element, plus of a Selectric
typewriter with stickers on the keys for use with such an element:

https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=ssabj&logNo=221589170088

As well, there is a YouTube video on repairing such a typewriter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIMnmwI3Z4s

John Savard

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