Yi Seul - About the article / name

Typically, Korean names are made with Chinese characteristics and so the majority of Korean names have meanings in Chinese. However, my name is pure Korean and is not made up of with Chinese characteristics. My name literally means 'dew', which has an image of freshness and the 'beginning'. (I know it doesn't really match with me.) My name was given by my parents, who hesitated between the name 'Jin Sil', which means truth, and 'Yi Seul'. However, my mother persuaded my father to choose 'Yi Seul' at the end, because 'Jin Sil' was a name of famous celebrity in Korea and my mother thought that I would be teased by other people. Although my name is pure Korean, my family name can be written in Chinese characteristic 'CHOI', which means 'high in height'.

One of the aspects that I found interesting about the article was the fact that English names are mostly opaque. I found this interesting because majority of Korean names have meanings. In fact, this is the reason why names are meaningful to Koreans. However, after reading this article, I realised that English names have values in origins, not in the meaning of names. The fact that English names are meaningful because of the unique backgrounds of the names was interesting to me.