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Data communication such as E‐mail has been mainly used via PC, but the Short Message Service (SMS) is widely used in mobile phone after the Personal Communication Service (PCS) was started. Broadcasting technology such DMB is also possible in mobile terminal. Recently, the E‐mail and searching internet is possible in broadcasting terminal such as remote controller of IP‐TV. The conversionce of terminals and services will be accelerated, if technology is updated. Today, numeric keypad is used in various fields, for example, telephone, mobile phone, remote controller, ATM machine, etc. Standardization of Korean keypad on which Korean alphabet characters are marked has been argued. In this paper, the current standard Korean keypad and current text input method of Korean from keypad will be reviewed, and the properties of proper standard Korean keypad is presented. Even though how to induce standardization of Korean keypad is very sensitive matter, it is also mentioned briefly.