I stumbled over "Latex and utf8" thread by accident. Are you aware of Hangul-ucs package? Homepage here: (Sorry, Korean) http://faq.ktug.or.kr/faq/Hangul-ucs It's currently in the NEW queue: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html It provides Korean support for latex-ucs package already in Debian, and it should handle UTF-8 encoded Korean text without any problem. seo Sanghyeon