Openoffice for ibook? Or other suggestions?

I teach in Korea and unfortunately, many Korean students use a Korean word processor that is incompatible with MS Office/MS Word for Mac. I need my students to send me assignments that I can open and read on my ibook G4.
Aside from requiring MS Word files, what file format options are available? I keep hearing about openoffice and want to know if this is an option for my ibook G4.
Thanks, Bibbity

If you have adequate bandwidth, there is NeoOffice for Mac
that seems to be able to do many things office apps are
noted for; this probably is compatible with Office 2004
and earlier versions; as Office 2008 is different...
There may be other language versions available from
their home page; the index main en page is as follows:
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
Note a separate page with update patches exists;
at times, there may be a patch, other times a new
upgrade or full version available.
NeoOffice has been a little bit nicer according to
those who've used it, compared to the OpenOffice
version; they have some similarities. Neo is refined.
I have NeoOffice; but also have MS Office versions.
Good luck & happy computing!
PS: If you have not upgraded your OS X to the last
version (per signature line) you may wish to consider
that and also the latest security updates. Also a few
better browser versions are available. -- My post took
longer to write than the one above it!
edited to add words.

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