Download korean characters to file

Hi,
I'm trying to download data which is in Korean into a file. The database character set is AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. I am using the UTL_FILE functions to create the file. I tried converting the text to unicode and creating a unicode file.
When I open the created file in Word, it is still not using Korean characters. Am I testing this correctly? How can I check that the unicode file is correct? Is my convert function used correctly?
Here's the code I've been testing on:
(Column1 has datatype NVARCHAR2(2000))
set serverout on
DECLARE
g_file UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
g_file_dir varchar2(200) := '/eft';
ls_gary nvarchar2(100);
BEGIN
g_file := UTL_FILE.FOPEN_NCHAR(g_file_dir,'TESTFILE','w');
FOR x IN (select CONVERT(COLUMN1,'UTF8','WE8ISO8859P1') bankname
FROM table1 ) LOOP
UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE_NCHAR (g_file,x.bankname);
EXIT;
END LOOP;
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE_ALL;
END;
Thanks,
Carol

Korean characters cannot be represented in the ISO-8859-1 character set, so the convert function will certainly cause problems.
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http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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