AntarcticaLTE t1_jd99bvs wrote
I'd also guess a lot of people have no clue which part of a korean name is the first name or last name
banngbanng t1_jd9qcek wrote
I know I never thought about Bong Joon-Ho being family name-given name until reading this thread lol
DroneOfDoom t1_jd9w3vq wrote
You’d think that the fact that the two most well known korean persons are father and son would indicate that the family name goes first.
mr_ji t1_jda4rcl wrote
What if the second Kim is a junior?
DroneOfDoom t1_jda581a wrote
Doesn’t work, because then you’d have a father and a son who share the same first name but have different last names.
Hayaguaenelvaso t1_jd9vq6s wrote
Korrekto. We are more exposed to Japanese names, thanks to them being the number one pop culture exporter in the world
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