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[cgwm808]

First name form
Now, your question of the first name form: Minho, Min Ho, Min-Ho or Min-ho?
There is a consensus on that, it’s usually Min Ho. Veteran contributor cgwm808 once made a poll among subbers and they thought the hyphen added to their work, so they opted for no hyphen. That was a long time before I came to Viki, but I’ve heard it from her.

I re-polled several dozen Korean to English subbers in 2021 and the overwhelming majority still prefers Lee Min Ho. No hyphen, and if the name is three syllables in Korean, it is three syllables Romanized.

[ajumma2]

I re-polled several dozen Korean to English subbers in 2021 and the overwhelming majority still prefers Lee Min Ho.

Interesting. I never received the poll, probably because I’m not that active in Viki anymore, but I’ll always vote for no space in the middle of a first name. Minho is his first name, and it’s strange to have a space in the middle, as if “Ho” is the middle name, which doesn’t even exist in Korean names. And most of the Ko-En subbers that I talked to also didn’t like the extra space in the middle of the first name. Lee Minho is still 3 syllables, even without the extra space.

[choitrio]

I agree. I think most Koreans would prefer to write their given name without a space between the two syllables. I myself came to the US in the late 1970s when there weren’t that many Korean immigrants and Korea was still at its infant stage of opening up to western influence. Since I didn’t know any better, I learned to spell my name as Hyun Jung, with a space, because that’s how Americans spelled it. However, if I can change right now without any legal ramifications, I would change it to Hyunjung.

I wonder how many of the Kor-Eng subbers who were polled are Korean natives with Korean names.

[ajumma2]

Since I didn’t know any better, I learned to spell my name as Hyun Jung, with a space, because that’s how Americans spelled it. However, if I can change right now without any legal ramifications, I would change it to Hyunjung.

All my family members were lucky enough to have spelled our Korean names without that extra space, but my mother-in-law (who didn’t know any better just like you) has that extra space in her first name, which is causing a lot of problems now.

Her official documents show discrepancies and it is such a pain to try to explain to those organizations. Here’s an example. So if her name is Sunmi Lee, and she goes by Nancy as her “American name,” then her Driver’s license may show it as Sun Mi Lee, where as her health insurance could be printed as Sun Lee, and her medicare card would show Sun M. Lee, and her credit card may be listed as Nancy S. Lee, and her phone bill is showing it as Sunmi Lee. I’m using a fake name, but this is a real problem for her.

Another story of a family with 4 boys whose first name starts with Jun. So their names could be Jun Il Park, Jun Chul Park, Jun Sung Park, Jun Min Park. And every phone calls they get on their house phone asks to speak to “Jun,” and they always have to ask, “Which one?” And the sad thing is that no one knows their whole full first name, so they respond back as “Jun Park?” Is not as big of a problem with personal cell phones but it’s still very confusing since all the siblings seem to have the same name.

I wonder how many of the Kor-Eng subbers who were polled are Korean natives with Korean names.

I was thinking the same.

[cgwm808]

I have a two syllable Chinese middle name so it has been spelled a variety of ways throughout my life with and without hyphen, space, etc on various government documents. Thankfully now the TSA says I can just put the first initial. But I gave the subbers the choice of Minho and Min-ho and Min Ho and the choice by about ⅔ was Min Ho