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The age of each other, including the slight age difference, affects whether or not to use honorifics. Korean language speakers in South Korea and North Korea, except in very intimate situations, use different honorifics depending on whether the other person's year of birth is one year or more older, or the same year, or one year or more younger.
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Korean personal names. United States: Central Intelligence Agency. 1962. OCLC 453054. Price, Fiona (2007). "Chapter 6: Korean names". Success with Asian names: a practical guide for business and everyday life. Intercultural Press. ISBN 9781857883787
Sook, also spelled Suk, is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Meaning and hanja
The choice of name often depends on the language, whether the user is referring to either or both modern Korean countries, and even the user's political views on the Korean conflict. The name Korea is an exonym, derived from Goryeo or Koryŏ. Both North Korea and South Korea use the name in English.
In order to determine the Latin spelling of a real or fictional Korean person's name, follow these steps in order and stop when you reach a step that adequately gives a spelling for your situation. 1. Use common name Per WP:COMMONNAME, use whichever spelling and name for the person is widely used in English-language sources. This may be a name ...
[1] Caveats. To begin with, I have never been a huge fan of the idea of "Romanizing" Korean, and still am not: The practice does not help "foreigners" (i.e., non-Koreans) to better pronounce, assimilate, or understand the use of Hangul or the Korean language (강남 will still be mispronounced, whether written Kangnam or Gangnam).
Courtesy names were often relative to the meaning of the person's given name, the relationship could be synonyms, relative affairs, or rarely but sometimes antonym. For example, Chiang Kai-shek's given name (中正, romanized as Chung-cheng) and courtesy name (介石, romanized as Kai-shek) are both from the yù (豫) hexagram 16 of I Ching. [4]