User talk:Vylmen

Romanization of Korean names

First of all, let me welcome you to the team at DramaWiki. We are always in need of enthusiastic and dedicated contributors to maintain the site. So, thank you in advance for your efforts!

As you probably noticed, Romanizing Korean names can be very troublesome. There are many different systems used on different English language sites and by the artists themselves. DramaWiki has its own guidelines, which can be found at DramaWiki:Korean Personal Names Romanization Preferences. When copying information from other sites, be aware that they may use different Romanizing rules.

English Wikipedia and HanCinema are great resources, but they use variations of Revised Romanization with hyphens, both of which are different from our system. They aren't always consistent either.

A few common examples of these differences:

• An (안) should be Ahn
• Yeong (영) should be Young
• Hyeon (현) should be Hyun
• Seon (선) should be Sun
• Jeong (정) should be Jung
• Hun (훈) should be Hoon
• Hui (희) should be Hee
• Yu (유) should be Yoo
• Si (시) should be Shi

We try to be consistent, but not always successfully. You will likely find plenty of different spellings for the same names in the database. --FritzB (talk) 07:37, 12 July 2020 (PDT)

Thanks. So the revised romanization in brackets for Kwon Hwa Woon is in fact wrong as it should be Gweon Hwa-un or Gweon Hwa Un without dashing. --Vylmen (talk) 05:53, 14 July 2020 (PDT)

Strictly by Revised Romanization, Kwon Hwa Woon (권화운) would be spelled Gwon Hwa-un or Gwon Hwaun. On DramaWiki, we separate the syllables, so it would be Gwon Hwa Un. The Korean diphthong (ㅝ) is consistently spelled wo in pretty much all Romanization systems. --FritzB (talk) 06:19, 14 July 2020 (PDT)

Ok, but then the RR column of Dramawiki:Korean_Personal_Names_Romanization_Preferences needs an update as it states: ㅝ weo wŏ Use wo (Kwon Hae Hyo). And unfortunately, the unicode table also does it wrong. --Vylmen (talk) 06:31, 14 July 2020 (PDT)