Conventional automatic indexing methods for Hangul texts can be classified into two groups as follows: One is to extract index terms by removing non-indexable segments from word-phrases, and the other is to generate index terms from the morphemes of word-phrases. The former suffers from the problem of word boundaries when documents contain many compound nouns. The latter can overcome the word boundary problem by extracting simple nouns, but has many overheads to develop a lot of linguistic knowledges needed in the indexing procedure. In this paper we propose a new indexing method based on n-grams. This method alleviates the problems of previous indexing methods related with word boundaries and linguistic knowledges. We also compare the effectiveness of the n-gram based indexing method with that of the previous ones.