Rating: 
Summary: Fast lookup, but lacks some common words
Review: When I first got this dictionary, I liked it a lot. The romanization scheme for Hangul makes it easy to look up words quickly. The romanization also helped me remember what each Hangul character sounded like. However, they made a tradeoff between accuracy of pronunciation and consistency of romanization. For example, 'ch' and 'j' are the same character in Hangul, but both are used in this dictionary, so I often have to look up both possible locations when looking up a Korean word. After a while, you can make a good guess which one is correct, but that comes with time. This is also true for Hangul 'l' and 'r'.As far as completeness, there are a lot of words I try to look up that aren't in this dictionary (and I'm not talking about complicated words, I'm talking about words that I'm hearing from a 5 year old). 'nae-ge' is another common phrase that's not in this dictionary. I think this dictionary could use some more common grammatical structures. I guess the best example I could come up right now off the top of my head is 'nan', which is defined in this dictionary as 'column', but later I found out was a contraction for 'na-nun'. Explanations like that would sure help out new Korean learners like me. Oh, here's another one, '-ji' (structure at the end of a Korean sentence) has no definition. Hmm...now that I just looked it up, neither does '-yo' or '-ni-da'. Well, that's my point. Overall, it's a good dictionary. I'm not really sure what else is out there, but if this is the bestselling Korean dictionary on Amazon, I guess it must be pretty good. It could be that I'm expecting too much. Oh, it's also a great compact size so you can carry it around quite easy.
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