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by hocuspocus 1914 days ago
> - Korean names. Unless they're into trendy foreign names, both the given name and surname will have hanja chosen.

Not necessarily true anymore. My wife has a completely made up given name that has nothing foreign: just two plain hangul characters without meaning on their own.

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Ah right, I blanked on that.

Some of the most memorable people I ran into in Korea were named 하늘 and 보라. I also met someone with a single character name, but I can't remember which character... I think 강?