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Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

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Aug 01, 2022
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Hi, I'm Giyen Kim. It's a highly problematic name. Not quite Korean. Definitely not American. No one gets it.

My birth name was supposed to have been Jiyeon or Ji-yun, which the internet tells me was the seventh-most popular girl's name in South Korea in 1980. I tried to figure out its meaning, but apparently, it differs based on the hanja used to write …

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