Baseball in Korea

Introduces cultural and social aspects of Korean baseball—in English. We do NOT represent the KBO.

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@michaelsclair Song Sungmun, Kim Youngwoong.

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@INTLBaseball24 @Wilgm93 Wooyeoul Shin and Hyeseong Kim both spelled without hyphens. (Fyi: Koreans officialy do not have hyphens or spaces in first name, just stylized with by some.)

Shohei Tomioka, Shinnosuke Ogasawara, Raisei Nakamura and Bryan Balzer also for Japan.

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@KBO_ENG @thejagepage @RaiseTheTrident It's good what you're trying to do. Personally prefer the official rule (without hyphens/space). Don't like what the KBO is doing right now breaking up the syllables with a space. It's just gonna create more and more confusion.

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@KBO_ENG @thejagepage @RaiseTheTrident For some reason, in baseball, it's a mess. Korean sports in general. Perhaps people in the industry are not aware of the rules, or they just want to stylize their names.

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@KBO_ENG You may have missed this, btw.

https://t.co/p7dqKM3vO3

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With name: You'll see Kim Hye-seong in my articles. That's AP/Yonhap style. I sometimes put first name in front here for my non-Korean speaking followers.
CAA told me Kim's name should be written Hyeseong Kim. That's apparently how he's gonna be called if he reaches MLB.

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@KBO_ENG The rule is both syllables in the first name combined with only the first letter capitalized. Although a hyphen can be used (e. g. people get confused with where the syllables are split).

https://t.co/sfT14L4ws6

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@GaijinBaseball @fujouglazed 1 in 3.

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@TeamAusBaseball @npb @CPBL @kbostats Think you guys meant to tag this account: @KBOleague

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@GaijinBaseball It was MBC Chungyong. They only transliterated the Korean word for "Blue Dragon".

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@85royal @Koreanfan_KC WOO-Y'ALL SHIN

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@Shawn_Spradling @odellfurIRL Not to mention NINE competitive balance picks for the expansion KT Wiz before Kim was selected. Kim was selected 41st overall.

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@Shawn_Spradling @odellfurIRL 3rd Round of the main draft. But, the catch is at that time there was an extra round months before the main draft called the "Primary (Territorial) Draft" where teams got to pick one player out of their own operating territories.

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@RoyalReportKev Loved your post on this player. Fyi, he goes by "Hyungchan Um". No hyphen nor space in his first name.

https://t.co/YNXYBHrbXs

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@joonlee @BoogSciambi Absolutely, people names should be expressed and pronounced the way they are in their respective countries/cultures.

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@jareddiamond If you separate all the syllables (ex: Ryu Hyun Jin), people sometimes mistake the second syllable of the first name as a middle name (First name: Hyun, Middle name: Jin). Koreans do not have middle names.

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@jareddiamond However, the NIK does allow the use of a hyphen to indicate where the syllable of your first name breaks. Because people outside of Korea would mispronounce "sunkyoung" as "sunk young" when it's actually "sun kyoung".