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Foreign names in Korean

Search official Korean-language examples of foreign personal names by original name or Korean spelling.

Official foreign-name examples

Search personal names listed in the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL) examples. This lookup does not invent a Korean spelling for every name. Check the NIKL examples directly.

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Enter the original spelling or a known Korean spelling. Official entries may use “surname, given name” with a comma. Try an exact match first, then a partial match.

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How to read a foreign-name result

The Korean spelling appears beside the original name. Country, language, person and source are shown when the official record provides them.

One original spelling can have different Korean renderings across languages. A partial match is a lead for further checking, not an automatic transliteration.

The official Korean loanword orthography and the published examples are the primary sources. The source pages are in Korean. For a Korean person’s name written in Roman letters, use the Korean-name converter instead.