Dawg for some reason they are always a variation of Yeon, Seok, Youngmin, or smth. I've been seeing way too many variations of Yeon though.
Anyways, yep. If you guys have any recs for webtoons that have some rather interesting names that don't mean smth related to the plot of the manhwa or like hella long, lmk too.
No, do not give the manhwa with the random white people names. I love "Kiss me if you can" and "Shutline" but dawg those basic ass names...
If you have been also seeing some variations of another name, feel free to lmk also cuz I honestly am a basic fujo and read what I find popular or if I find a comment that intrigues me on the home page.
because "yeon" isn't always the same yeon. if it's the same as chinese or japanese, then that one "yeon" is going to have multiple different meanings, and therefore, they are, in korean, probably a wide variety of names.
it's not a stock name, that's like saying Rayburn, Rachel, Raymond, and Ray are all stock names because they reuse the word Ray.
Or Maybelle, Mary, May, Maynard, and Mabel.
Or Ashley, Leo, Leon, Leonardo, Lee.
Or Nicole, Coleton, Cole, Colby.
Or Bellingham, Belle, Belinda, Isabel, Isebella, Mirabel, Mabel, Maribel...
so, I don't really think Koreans using the same root character in a multiple character name more times than not when those roots don't even mean the same thing (unlike in English sometimes), is a stock name...?
at least, not anymore than the multiple kevins, bobs, toms, harrys, and johns in movies.
james too.
and then again, not every story should name their character uh Gandalf, Severus Snape... etc. you go to some fantasy story, you may or may not see a special name.
Or Christopher, Chris, Topher, Kit, Christy, Christie, Christopherson, Crystal, Christen,
Or Elizabeth, Beth, Eliza, Liz, Betty, Lizzie, Lisa.
Or Margaret, Maggie, Meg, Peggy, Peg, Marg, Martha, Martin, March.
Or Katherine, Kate, Kathy, Kat, Kitty, Caitlin.
Or Benjamin, Ben, Benji, Jamie.
Like, if we're going with people repeating the same names over and over, English and most languages beside it are... notorious for sticking on letters and cutting bits off to make a new "name".
Personally, I find the character smashing that CN/KR/JP do to be mildly more interesting. You get a lot of homophones if you're tonedeaf (literally), but it's vastly more complicated than just "there seems to be an influx of -yeon at the beginnings and ends".
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because "yeon" isn't always the same yeon. if it's the same as chinese or japanese, then that one "yeon" is going to have multiple different meanings, and therefore, they are, in korean, probably a wide variety of names.
it's not a stock name, that's like saying Rayburn, Rachel, Raymond, and Ray are all stock names because they reuse the word Ray.
Or Maybelle, Mary, May, Maynard, and Mabel.
Or Ashley, Leo, Leon, Leonardo, Lee.
Or Nicole, Coleton, Cole, Colby.
Or Bellingham, Belle, Belinda, Isabel, Isebella, Mirabel, Mabel, Maribel...
so, I don't really think Koreans using the same root character in a multiple character name more times than not when those roots don't even mean the same thing (unlike in English sometimes), is a stock name...?
at least, not anymore than the multiple kevins, bobs, toms, harrys, and johns in movies.
james too.
and then again, not every story should name their character uh Gandalf, Severus Snape... etc. you go to some fantasy story, you may or may not see a special name.
Or Alexander, Alex, Alexandra.
Or Christopher, Chris, Topher, Kit, Christy, Christie, Christopherson, Crystal, Christen,
Or Elizabeth, Beth, Eliza, Liz, Betty, Lizzie, Lisa.
Or Margaret, Maggie, Meg, Peggy, Peg, Marg, Martha, Martin, March.
Or Katherine, Kate, Kathy, Kat, Kitty, Caitlin.
Or Benjamin, Ben, Benji, Jamie.
Like, if we're going with people repeating the same names over and over, English and most languages beside it are... notorious for sticking on letters and cutting bits off to make a new "name".
Personally, I find the character smashing that CN/KR/JP do to be mildly more interesting. You get a lot of homophones if you're tonedeaf (literally), but it's vastly more complicated than just "there seems to be an influx of -yeon at the beginnings and ends".
That’s super interestinggggg!