Korean name in English ยท romanizer
Converts Korean names to the Latin alphabet. Shows the official Revised Romanization alongside the common surname spellings (Kim ยท Lee ยท Park). One name per line converts a whole list at once.
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Once the English name is settled, put it in a business-card QR with the QR code generator, or clean duplicates out of a list first with text clean-up.
Which spelling should you use
South Korea's official system is the Revised Romanization of Korean (2000): ๊น is Gim, ์ด is I, ๋ฐ is Bak. Road signs, textbooks and government documents follow it. Real people mostly do not: the overwhelming majority of Kims spell it Kim, and Lee and Park are far more common than I and Bak. Passports accept either. The converter shows both โ the "Other spelling" column is the surname in the opposite system โ so you can match a family member's passport or an existing document instead of guessing. Given names follow the official rules in both modes. For a passport, write the given name as one word in capitals (GILDONG); a hyphen (GIL-DONG) is allowed but sometimes gets mangled into a middle name abroad.
Frequently asked questions
Are the names I type sent anywhere?
No. The conversion runs inside your browser and nothing is transmitted. The page keeps working with the internet switched off, so it is fine to paste an entire class list or staff roster.
What is the difference between "Person's name" and "Place names ยท words"?
The official system spells words the way they are pronounced: ์ ๋ผ is Silla because it is pronounced [์ค๋ผ], and ์ข ๋ก is Jongno. Personal names are the exception โ they are spelled syllable by syllable without those sound changes, so ๋น๋ is Bitna even though it is pronounced [๋น๋]. Choose "Person's name" for people and "Place names ยท words" for everything else; the second mode applies consonant assimilation, palatalization, ใ contraction and liaison.
Does it handle two-syllable surnames?
Yes โ ๋จ๊ถ, ํฉ๋ณด, ์ ๊ฐ, ์ ์ฐ, ๋ ๊ณ , ์ฌ๊ณต, ์๋ฌธ and ๋๋ฐฉ are recognized automatically. If you put a space between surname and given name ("๋จ๊ถ ๋ฏผ") that split is used as-is, which also works for any unusual name.
Why eo and eu instead of u?
Those are the official spellings of ใ and ใ ก: ์ is Seo and ์ is Eun. Many Koreans prefer u (Sun, Jung) because it reads more naturally in English โ that is a customary spelling, not an official one. Copy the result and change the syllables you want.
Can I get the output into a spreadsheet?
"Copy Korean + English" copies each line as Korean, a tab, then the romanization. Pasting into Excel or Google Sheets puts them in two columns.