[GeronL]

Oddly the Koreans are perfectly willing to go with the Western way of saying their names.

Lee instead of Yi
Park instead of Pak
Kim instead of Gim/Kim/or whatever

They even translate it that way themselves now.

[lentulusgracchus]

Their privilege .... like the Japanese borrowings and spellings (in Japanese kana) of "fork" as "forku" and "steak" as "bifteku".