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A Handy Guide on Writing and Pronouncing Korean Names

For detailed character bios, please check out the Atlantis Entertainment Roster.

H3RO

(박현태) Park Hyuntae:  "Tae" -  Tay is pronounced like Tay 
(단테) Guan Feng:  "Dante"
(권민혁) Kwon Minhyuk    "Minhyuk" - Hyuk rhymes with luck
(네이트 최) Nate Choi   "Nate" - Choi is more like Chay
(하균구) Ha Kyungu   "Kyun" - This is a hard one because there's not really anything like it in English, but the 'u' is somewhere between an 'u'  and an 'oo'. More like a Kyoon.
(송준기) Song Junki   "Jun" - Jun is fun! 

Onyx

(김영빈) Kim Youngbin: "Youngbin" This one is easy
(
샤오) Xiao: "Xiao" OK, this one's not so easy. It's actually quite hard to try to write this phonetically in English, but I'll give it a go! "She-yaow" – run it all together to make one syllable
(윤지원) Yoon Jiwon: "Jiwon" The Ji is like the gee in "oh, gee!", while the won is like the number... so long as you say it like 'gone'.
(임종섭) Im Jongsub: "JongB" JongB is quite easy. Im rhymes with him.
(공민혁) Gong Minhyuk: "MinMin" Minhyuk we've covered. Gong, although spelled with a G, is pronounced somewhere between a G and a K.
(
런용식) Ren Yongsik: "CX" The letter C doesn't really exist. In Hanguel it would be written as 시 (without over-complicating things, this might vary slightly depending on your next letter) which sounds like 'she'. X also doesn't exist, and would be written as 엑스 (separately ek and suh, with the emphasis more on the uh) or ecksuh. Said together, that would be she-ecksuh, which almost sounds like 'sex'.

Zodiac

(상현서) Sang Hyunseo: "Hyunseo" - the seo is pronounced like 'so'
(렌용식) Ren Yongsik: "Yongsik"
(曾良 / 셍 라이언) Tseng Ryan: "Ryan" - Tseng is a Chinese name, and is pronounced more like 'Seng'. Because of the 'ㄹ' in Ryan (라이언), and an R not really existing in Korean, the r would be very soft and almost sounding like an 'L'.
(양주찬) Yang Joochan: "Apollo" - Apollo is 아폴로
(정동열) Jung Dongyeol: "Dongyeol" - The Yeol would be pronounced like 'yole' (rhymes with mole)
(백성일) Baek Sungil: "Sungil" - Baek is pronounced more like 'beck'. With way the Hanguel is written the emphasis on the name of Sungil would be 'Sung ill', however, with the next syllable staring with a vowel, the consonant would carry over to be more like 'Sung Gil'.
(김재훈) Kim Jaehoon: "Jaeh​oon": Jae like Jay
(이승진) Lee Seungjin: "Seungjin" - Lee is a very English way of saying 이 - it's more like Eee. 'Seung' would be pronounced like 'Sung'
(이민혁) Lee Minhyuk: "King" - We covered Minhyuk and Lee earlier, so king in Korean is Wang (왕). King goes by the actual English pronunciation of king '킹'

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            • Chapter Eight
            • Chapter Nine
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    • 2018 >
      • November: BTS
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      • December: Merry Christmas
    • 2019 >
      • January: Happy New Year (Monsta X)
      • January: Understanding Korean Names
      • February : Zodiac 2 Releases (VICTON)
      • February: Grandmother's Kimchi
      • March: Onyx: Truth is out! (Corbyn)
      • March: Happy White Day!
      • April: Let Onyx in your Heart (GOT7)
      • April: The Super Secret Squirrel Project
      • May: Onyx Heart is Here!
      • May: More Onyx! (Boyfriend)
      • June: Zodiac 3 is coming!
      • July: Meet Seunjin and Yerin!
      • September: Cookies in tea?
      • November: Can books mend a broken heart?
      • November: (S)he's All Theirs - a "You Choose, Why Choose"
      • December: Guess who kept a secret for once?!
      • December: A year at Atlantis (JYP)
    • 2020 >
      • January: Happy New Year (Weki Meki)
      • January: Would You Protest A Wedding? (Chen)
      • February: Zodiac 4 Cover Reveal
      • February: Stolen Luck Releases (Kang Daniel)
      • March: Zodiac 4 Pre-order (Super Junior)
      • March Happy White Day / Kimchi Fried Rice
      • April: Zodiac 4 is live! (Block B)
      • April: Onyx has a pre-order!
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    • Axellia Publishing