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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

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banngbanng t1_jd9qcek wrote

I know I never thought about Bong Joon-Ho being family name-given name until reading this thread lol

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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.

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mr_ji t1_jda4rcl wrote

What if the second Kim is a junior?

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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.

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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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