Names

December 9, 2012

Tonight, I helped my language exchange partner pick an English name.  It's always fun for me.  Nuri Han is now AKA Nicki Han.

Do I have a Korean name?  Yeah, I have two: a serious one and a joke one.  The joke one is 오만원, Oh Man-won, which is Korean for "Fifty bucks".  My serious name is 강지훈, Kang Ji-hun, which I decided on after looking up the 한자 (Chinese Characters). 강 is a common family name that means "river", 지 means "wisdom", and 훈 means "merit".

I don't know what Nicki means.