| I don't think that is the still the case anymore. I navigate from time to time to Korean website, very few occasion they actually uses Chinese characters, except: 1. Some countries names. 中(China)/美(US)/日(Japan)/北(North Korea) 2. Blue House (think of it as Korean's White House, representing the headquarters of the administration), sometimes referred as 青(Blue). 3. The president's surname, sometimes referred as 文(Moon) Except for those very limited cases, I don't think Korean people are actually using Hanja anymore, it almost feel like some sort of emoji for then, that they probably can't read it, just comprehend the meaning. As to Korean names, yes I think they still have a Chinese name registered somewhere, but no longer required and not shown on their government ID card. |