P'yang-based Korean IME 'WINK98' Hits Japanese Market Next Month

P'yang-based Korean IME 'WINK98'
Hits Japanese Market November

Looking for an easy-to-use Korean IME for Japanese version of Windows 98/95 and NT 4.0?
"WINK98" (¥38,000) is your choice.

WINK98 and WINKOCR Ver. 2.0

Featuring in its beginner-friendly unique devices, such as a *handwriting input method, WINK98 lets you input and print Korean text, and even mix Korean with other languages in the same sentence.

Supporting compatibility with HTML, WINK98 also enables you to view Korean language World Wide Web, and even to input Korean text into Web formats and e-mail messages.

Having undergone fine-tuning R&D at Korea Computer Center in Pyongyang, WINK98 will be put on the market in mid-November.

WINK98 first caught media attraction at "World PC Expo '98" held in Japan, where Chongryun-affiliated CGS company unveiled it with a striking sales pitch: "Korean IME from Pyongyang."

In the early 1990, KCC and CGS partnered on the relatively untapped Korean IME market in Japan as they found it business niche.

Serving as a sales channel for WINK 98, CGS is a newcomer to the market already dominated by two major companies -- OMRON SOFTWARE Co.'s "K Wnn95" and Kodensha's "Korean Writer Ver. 4.0."

Prior to WINK98, CGS already released two software packages -- "WINK95" and "WINK97."

"More than 15,000 packages (of WINK95 and WINK97) have been sold. We want a further market penetration, possibly around a 30-40 percent share," said Pak Song Ryul, chief clerk at CGS's System Enterprise Dept, who hopes WINK98 will kick-start KCC-CGS venture business. "We also exchange technicians and engineers every year."

According to Ryu, KCC employs more than 700 north Korean developers in its labs, face-to-face with hundreds of PCs running on Microsoft Windows 98. CGS, meanwhile, do marketing and accept feedbacks from users and testers, thus in touch with firsthand information like: what's in need and what's in vogue.

CGS will also introduce its latest Korean *OCR "WINKOCR Ver2.0" timed to coincide with its awaited WINK98.

Note:

(A powerful mouse-clicking input method to find and type a Korean character when you know how it looks but don't know how to pronounce it. )

(Optical Character Reader, a software which enable a PC to scan characters so that user can read, edit and save them as separate document on each PC.)

Features:

Easy Conversion from Korean to Hanja

-- The WINK98 comes with a one-touch-switch input method, a feature-rich input method that allows conversion from Korean (Hangul) to Hanja (Japanese Kanji) with a single click on a "Korean-Hanja" menu bar in a *"WINK98 Toolbar."

(The WINK98 Toolbar is switchable from MS-IME98 Toolbar with a Ctrl+Shift shortcut key.)

8 Keyboard Layouts and 30 True Type Fonts

-- Supporting 30 high-quality fonts, WINK98 has 4 keyboard layouts for native speakers and 4 Roman-type mode for easy Korean input by non-native speakers. A customize wizard helps you create your own keyboard layout easily.

Versatile Multilingual Capabilities

-- Switch between languages with a single key hit.

-- Combine Korean and other languages in the same document, even in the same sentence whatever it be text, MS-Word, MS-Excel (both MS applications require Windows 98 in case) or HTML and e-mail.

System Requirement

-- WINK98 works on any computer running on Windows 98/95 or Windows NT with Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater, and also work with Outlook 98 and Outlook Express 4.0 or greater.

To run WINK 98, it requires:

-- 16MB of RAM; 32MB recommended

-- 23MB of available hard-disk space (minimum install)

-- CD-ROM drive compatible with multimedia PC specifications

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