we import goods from Korea and one of our employees must be able to
e-mail korea and receive the answers in korean.
also she must be able to send us e-mails in english. previously she
used a korean samsung laptop. we want to get her a new laptop here in
the us that can do this . does she need Korean windows? can she do it
with english windows and some "converter"?

Hello Mattg123,

   If you purchase a laptop with Windows XP, you do not *need* a
Korean made laptop to send e-mails in the Korean language.


   Windows XP comes with what is needed to write in Korean. However,
the font is not installed. You will need to install the font.

"Users of English versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not need
to download the IME - the IME and the East Asian fonts are provided as
standard as part of these operating systems. They are however not
installed by default. Here are instructions for installing the IME
under Windows 2000/XP."
http://www.declan-software.com/korean_ime/korean_ime.htm#what


 You can find how to install the Korean font here:
http://www.declan-software.com/korean_ime/korean_ime.htm#XP


Here is further information:
"The Korean Language Pack is designed to work with the Office XP Tool:
Global IME (Korean) download and is only required if you are not
running Microsoft Windows® 2000 AND you are not running a Korean
language version of the operating system. You do not need to download
the Korean Language Pack if any of the following are true:

    * you are running Windows 2000
    * you are running a Korean language version of the operating system
    * you are not installing the Global IME (Korean) tool"

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfa419f-f25d-4f9c-b1dc-3ef7c4f1be91&displaylang=en

I have a client whose Korean daughter-in-law installed the MS Korean
Pack on Windows ME and successfully uses e-mail in Korea, with no
additional software, on an English version Windows PC.

Please read all the information and download and install the correct
software for your laptop's version of Windows.

Regards, Crabcakes

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a very thorough answer!

Thank you for the stars and nice tip!

Regards, Crabcakes