Why do they put a hyphen in the middle of Korean names and then reverse the order? Just keep it as it is, it's so annoying. And write the given name as one word, there's no hyphen in Hangul...
>>217634797because our people are retarded.
>>217634797asians have last names in the front you silly polakwhen they're living in the west they follow the customs there.
>>217635358>asians have last names in the front you silly polakyes that's what i'm saying???
>>217635850well why do you have it in the rear?
It's to indicate that its the first Name as wholeIf its Hong Gil Donganglos would go "what the fuck is the surname what is that a middle name and a first name?"Gil-dong = first nameHong = surname
>>217636524why not hong gildong thoughstbeit
>>217636558good point idk that but i guess its to indicate the 3 hangul syllables.
>>217636558They don't want people to think it's Gild-ong.
>>217634797>>217636558I guess it's to avoid creating sequences where the lack of the apostrophe would create ambiguity, like if the name were "Dongil", you wouldn't know whether to read it Dong-il or Don-gil. Not sure why they don't just use it in those cases though, probably just to maintain consistency
>>217636686i, like many others, wouldn't miss a chance to say dong in an official capacity
>>217636524exactly, why is it important to keep the syllables apart?are korean given names all like or John Paul or Jean-Baptiste or something?
>>217636712Japanese people just use an apostrophe. No need for odd-looking hyphens.
>>217636712This happens a lot in pinyin and Hepburn so I assume it does in whatever romanization they use for gorean too
another question I have about korean names is some english-like surnames like "park" and "moon".are they really spelled so in their script?
>>217634797I think hyphen is a wade giles style that got mixed into other romanization. Many other romanization just use space. Pingyin just concatenate two words together
>>217638567I think the pinying manual says for normal two syllables name you just concatenate them and only use the hyphen for special case such as A-Ming (A is not in the name like Mr) However, I have seen people outside China spell their names in Pinyin, then hyphenate it. Clearly they were not following the manual and got influenced by other conventions.
>>217637274because they are separate in Korean you fucking low IQ dipshit.
>>217639268we are curious what "separate" means in this context.
>>217638998Yeah normally a pinyin name is just like Cao Nima but for example 临安 is Lin'an to clarify that it's not Li'nan
>>217638744Yes
Btw korean names changed into chinese style after shilla kingdom won the three kingdoms period. Our names were similar to the japanese. There was no Kim, Park, Choi in bakjae or gorguyeo kingdom
>>217639710look at the image OP posted you stupid Jap.
>>217639766I thought Pak was the surname of Silla monarchs.
>>217639710>>217639268It's really a curious thing indeed. I once looked up a pinyin manual. I searched for "separation", but the manual only cares about "concatenation". I thought the hyphen was there to separate words. But the manual only cares about concatenation.
ig the hyphen is there to indicate the "Gil-dong" part is a whole first name. alternatively it could be "Gil Dong" or "Gildong". "Gil Dong" might be misunderstood as Gil being middle name and Dong being first name. "Gildong" format could be confusing for some names like "박가은(Park Ga-eun)". if you write that as "Gaeun", you don't know if it's 가은(ga-eun) or 개운(Gae-un). Reversing the order thing is to fit into the western custom of placing firstname first and lastname last. but the real problem is that Koreans themselves do not observe these rules consistently, some people will use hyphens or don't, some will reverse the name order or some don't etc. and the other persisting shits like 임 being romanized as both "im" or "lim" or "Yim", 이 being "Yi", "Lee", "Li", "Rhee" etc. There should be a one unified strict consistent rule imo
I personally like the Japanese style of capitalizing the family name, so this would be Gil-dong HONG in western style.
>>217639766Ancient korean niggas be like>it's written as hwang zhong but it's pronounced kureisajiwunesamari
>>217639710why don't you google it like this Taiwanese did >>217640467retarded Jap motherfucker.
