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Koreans also sometimes adopt American names. Like Ma Dong-seok or as you know him, Don Lee. It's for Localization and because their names are hard to pronounce like Choi or Park, neither are pronounce like they're spelt.

Sounds retarded as fuck. Imagine turning Naruto Uzumaki into William Smith.

My name is William Smith, and I am going to become Hoe Kang one day!

At first, but usually they pick names in English that already correspond to the native name.

It doesn't matter how much it corresponds, it is the most immersion breaking thing they can do.

I'm not arguing, it is disconcerting to hear English when watching Kdramas. Like I'm getting better at understanding Korean, but I can't make the switch fluidly

Could also be the translation teams fuck up