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Hong Gil-dong, a generic Korean name used similarly to "John Doe" in English. From the top, the name is written in Hangul, then Hanja, then in Latin text using the Revised Romanization system. Surname (홍; Hong) Given name (길동; Gil-dong)
Korean names are names that place their origin in, or are used in, Korea. A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong (Korean: 성명; Hanja: 姓名), seongham (성함; 姓銜), or ireum (이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is usually no space between the surname and the given name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Korean name” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.