Reading hangul Today we practiced reading and pronouncing hangul characters. Most compound characters are straightforward in their pronunciation. For example ㅟ is pronounced "ooee" (kinda like the French word oui), because it is composed of the two sounds ㅜ (oo) + ㅣ(ee). However, there are some that are exceptions. For example, ㅚ is pronounced like "oh-eh", not "oh-ee" like you would think if pronouncing the two hangul letters separately. My conclusion: it's better not to think of hangul characters in terms of romanizations at all. The romanization is helpful at first, but after a while it just gets confusing. So better to learn the Korean letters as their own sound and system, and embrace it as a totally new system, rather than try to transpose from English. They are both languages, and they both have their own logic, but the logic of each is distinct.