The Cyrillization of Korean is the transcribing and transliterating the Korean language into the Cyrillic alphabet. The main cyrillization system in use is the Kontsevich system (). The Kontsevich system was created by the Soviet-Russian scholar Lev Kontsevich () in the 1950s based on the earlier transliteration system designed by (). As a consequence of the Cold War, a Latin-script variant of the Kontsevich system is used in the states of the former Warsaw Pact (for example, in Polish and Czech), while Serbian and Macedonian follow a Cyrillization system based on McCuneâÂÂReischauer romanization owing to the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia being a non-aligned state outside the Soviet bloc.
Cyrillization systems for Korean were developed domestically in both North Korea (where it has been proposed to replace the current script in the past) and South Korea; Kontsevich carried out work on the systemization of these rules. In contrast with some systems of Romanization of Korean, the transcription is based primarily on the pronunciation of a word, rather than on its spelling.
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Some letters are transcribed differently in the middle of a word when following certain other letters.
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Korean personal names are written by family name first, followed by a space and then the given name. As a rule, syllables in given names are not separated.