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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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 Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: Korean name game |
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I was bored with my girlfriend on the train, so we started thinking about funny names Koreans could name their kids.
For example, there is a teacher at my school named 하, so we decided he should name his kid 장실...
the other one was Mrs. 조 should name her kid 용희...
(i never said this would be funny)
anymore? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| My grandmother-in-law's name is (이)술노미, which is an antiquated Korean name for a spoon. So yes, she's named Spoon. Apparently her parents back in 1910 didn't want a daughter and didn't think girls deserved names, so they just named her after the nearest object at hand. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Honest to goodness I had a student named 한국인 last year. |
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Empress Jiyong
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: The Old Motherland
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you both serious? 한국인? Hahahaha. RACETRAITOR, were her parents really that unhappy she was a girl? That's horrible. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I've thought many times that random vocab looks like people's names potentially at least.....고양이 (cat), 고향이 (home town), 신호등 (traffic light) and many others. Done a random vocab class on this very thing actually. |
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Chamchiman
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: Digging the Grave
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: Korean name game |
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| antoniothegreat wrote: |
I was bored with my girlfriend on the train, so we started thinking about funny names Koreans could name their kids.
For example, there is a teacher at my school named 하, so we decided he should name his kid 장실...
the other one was Mrs. 조 should name her kid 용희...
(i never said this would be funny)
anymore? |
antoniothegreat: "이효리 is your stage name? What's your real name?"
효리: "유인미..."
antoniothegreat: "(Gulp...)"
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Empress Jiyong wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR, were her parents really that unhappy she was a girl? That's horrible. |
Remember it was 95 years ago. I think that was a lot more common back then. |
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blynch
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: UCLA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Korean name game |
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| Chamchiman wrote: |
| antoniothegreat wrote: |
I was bored with my girlfriend on the train, so we started thinking about funny names Koreans could name their kids.
For example, there is a teacher at my school named 하, so we decided he should name his kid 장실...
the other one was Mrs. 조 should name her kid 용희...
(i never said this would be funny)
anymore? |
antoniothegreat: "이효리 is your stage name? What's your real name?"
효리: "유인미..."
antoniothegreat: "(Gulp...)"
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she looks so fake... |
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Cynical Optimist
Joined: 26 Feb 2006
Location: S.E. Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: |
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don't have a korean keyboard so i can't write the hangul...
i know a guy named "Yeo Duk-seok" -- which, if a bad accent is assumed, sounds to me like "Your D/ck-suck" 
real nice guy. luckily he speaks no English. |
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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| ahh, i forgot, i had a student named 한솔로... |
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danby_ll
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| I know a Korean guy named Beom Seok...to non-Koreans it definitely sounds like "Bum Suck". |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| I had a student once named 이락이 (or maybe it was 의 but he pronounced it "ee"). I told him to be VERY careful if he ever goes to the US and to say Rocky Lee and NOT Lee Rocky (with Korean pronunciation)! |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| I have a 유 명한(famous) student. |
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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: Re: Korean name game |
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| Chamchiman wrote: |
| antoniothegreat wrote: |
I was bored with my girlfriend on the train, so we started thinking about funny names Koreans could name their kids.
For example, there is a teacher at my school named 하, so we decided he should name his kid 장실...
the other one was Mrs. 조 should name her kid 용희...
(i never said this would be funny)
anymore? |
antoniothegreat: "이효리 is your stage name? What's your real name?"
효리: "유인미..."
antoniothegreat: "(Gulp...)"
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she makes me feel kind of funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class... |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
Location: 서울
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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a friend of mine took part in a singing contest at hanyang university once. one of the other contestants was called 조용한.. which means quiet. he should have acted accordingly...
i also know a guy who was a katusa, and he told me one of his mates there was called 오유석. imagine what american soldiers would have made of that one! |
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