Thanks for the explanations! I read the Wikipedia entry on Korean pronunciations, but your examples really helped a lot.

According to Wiki, there seems to be different romanization systems? And in the handouts that we got in class, there were also different spellings of the same Hangul characters (which drove me nuts because I was all, "oh noes, the pronunciation changed again D:").

You'll just need to memorize the correct Korean spelling and the 'special' romanizations separately. ;P

Okay, will keep that in mind. X3