K-Pop Singer Utterly Confused At His “Sudden” Name Change By The Government
A recent Instagram post garnered much attention as they announced that the names of foreigners on Korean documents will be unified.
The account hipkr_ posted with the title, “Foreigners Names Unified as ‘Last Name-First Name,” and mentioned singer John Park.
“Going forward, foreigner names recorded on Korean administrative documents will be unified as ‘Last Name-First Name.‘ On August 28, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced a plan to standardize foreigner names.
The plan stated that the last and first names would be written in capital Roman letters, with Korean names having the last and first name together in Korean letters. For the convenience of foreigners, the Roman letters and Korean names will be written together.”
As examples, they revealed Harry Potter to be written as “POTTER HARRY” and Tom Sawyer as “SAWYER TOM.” In the main photo, they wrote, “John Park is now Park John,” garnering a huge response from netizens.
To this, John Park left a direct comment on the post.
No hey wait a minute.
— John Park
Netizens couldn’t help but laugh at his short yet impactful response to the news.
- “Ah man this is so funny.”
- “So f*cking funny.”
- “ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ”
- “I’ve become Park John.”
- “Ah so freaking funny.”
- “Ah f*ck so freaking hilarious. Ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ”
- “Ahhhhhhh”
- “F*ckkkkk.”
- “Park John sir.”
- “He’s become Park John…”
Netizens also brought up a past Infinite Challenge meme where they talked about his name.
“Jung Jun Ha: Isn’t your last name Park?
Jung Hyung Don: His last name is John since it comes first.
Jung Jun Ha: Why did you name yourself Park?”
Not long after, the Instagram account also left a witty comment to the post.
John Park’s Korean name is ‘Park Sung Gyu’.
What are your thoughts on this new plan?
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