ITNW Concert Shanghai Stop Fan-account Translation [No. 2]
Found another detailed fan-account, which I've translated here; there's a bit of YoonYul in it, and this writer devotes more space (and attention) to Yuri, Yoona and Hyo, but mentions all the girls at least once. I've also provided a (rather too lengthy) footnote on the different Chinese character/hanja versions of Yoona's name, if you're ( Read more... )
What I did want to say was, thank you for reminding me, I did forget to address the issue of the hanja-hangul connection. I think the only ways of finding out what it is "means" in its hangul form, would be to either have her tell us, her audience, directly, or for us to have access to the actual hanja (if it exists) on her national IDs, since hanja-hangul meanings are so closely connected.
On this, I asked a Korean unni to run a search on naver, and fortunately, Yoona (and SNSD's) personal ID details do not seem to have been leaked, by which I mean we don't seem to have scans of her passport/national ID card floating around on the Internet. (DBSK members all have had such misfortunes befall them, but the girls have escaped it so far, thank goodness. Think of the identity fraud cases that could follow. Think of Ivy. 'nuff said.)
A search for an "official" explanation of the girls' names also brought up nothing; apparently the K-sones do not have a united answer. It also revealed that they were guessing at even more variants of her name than those 2 which I stated above. (It might also interest you to know that Taeyeon, Yoona, Yuri and Seohyun all have variants in their "internet" hanja names. I think it's because fan-subbers in different places translate their names [by ear] differently.)
Tl; dr? In short, the hangul meaning is probably linked to the hanja, which in turn, no one knows for sure. Since the ITNW concert was "official", i.e. produced by SM, I'd say that's the meaning of her name, and all the other members' names, with which the company is going.
Talk about circles!
-R.
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But thank you for that concise rundown on the names though, I think i understand what the whole fiasco relating to SM entertainment buying/imposing copyright/legal rights to the names of the all their respective artists/groups last year. I like how their group name on the whole, has a English,Korean and Chinese version (ditto for DBSK and CSJH) but considering how other groups are merely just "F(x) or Shinee or Super Junior" /irrelevant
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