South Korea has unique and beautiful names, their names are a very important part of their culture. Unlike many western cultures that put the family name after the given name, korean names have the family name before. Korean names usually have 3 syllables, for example, in Kim Jong Hyun the family name is "Kim". The most common family names are "Kim" "Choi" "Park" "Lee", most family names have one syllable, but there are also some rare cases in which they have 2 syllables like "Namgung", "Sagong". As the names have 2 syllables, people might ask if it is a middle name, but there are no middle names in Korea.
Many korean names are based on chinese characters, but many people want an original hangul name. Names written in hangul have a very thoughtful meaning. For example, in the name Moon Ga Young, Ga Young means beautiful flower, a very beautiful lady. Many people think that the name might determine the person's fate, and this is why parents think really carefully about their child's name. Parents want the best for their child's life, full of health, success, love, etc, so they take the naming job very seriously. Some even ask a naming specialist for help! They believe that aspects such as saju (meaning the four pillars-the hour, day, month, year of birth) and eumyangohaeng (the theory of universe balance, ying and yang) should be taken into account. Despite many people saying that naming their children according to these aspects is old-fashioned, naming specialists have a lot of costumers. As the naming "business" has risen, there are many sites online for naming koreans, there are also many books about korean names. Others like to ask for advice to their elders.
Many people in Korea these days like to name their children with meaningful and soft names, Hangul based names like Iseoul (which means dew "이슬"), Oejin (which means generous and wise heart "어진") are very nice. Another very popular way of naming children is using the "english style", names like "Su-ji", "Yu-Jin", and "Je-In" are easy to pronunciate and have a nice meaning. I really like Korean names, and I think it's very creative that they are using english names, I love korean culture.
Try this, it is not very accurate, but it's fun:
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