Comments on: What’s in a Name?

By: Internet Banking

Internet Banking — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:08:23 +0000

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By: wendy

wendy — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:50:05 +0000

hi cher – unfortunately for you, unlike me you need to adjust:-). it is your husband’s culture and your son’s… and yours na rin hehehe.

hi emil – i can imagine! nakakalito, i’m sure! LOL. you can’t just pretend that you know them all also. hirap nun.

By: cher

cher — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:30:03 +0000

ah one more thing, some of my husband's relatives and my mother-in-law's friends already calls me "u-hyeon omma" but i have NEVER responded to it(unitentionally)....i guess i'm not used to being called like that, so my mind resfused to respond...kkkkk. cher´s last blog post..INFO 106: Baby's Philippine and Korean Passport

By: Technomad

Technomad — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Hey Wendy, I know what you mean about remembering Korean names or Chinese names for that matter. For some reason remembering somebody as John, Bill etc... is so much easier for me. You can just imagine the predicament I'm in when I'm with my clients and they introduce me to about 6 people whose names I'm expected to remember. Technomad´s last blog post..Sony Xperia at SKT

By: cher

cher — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:27:00 +0000

when i had zach i reminded my husband not to call me "zach's mom" or "u-hyeon omma"....i now it's part of korean culture but i refuse to be included in it....until now my mother=in=law calls me seriya her version of cheryle(because she can't pronounce my name well) and i really appreciate that, just like you i love my hubby and son very much but i don't want to be known as the wife and the mom of someone, i want to be called by OWN NAME.......that's the only thing that's keeping me sane in korea....bwahahahahahah. cher´s last blog post..INFO 106: Baby's Philippine and Korean Passport

By: wendy

wendy — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:57:16 +0000

hi betchay – i have close friends whom i address with their first names, too. it’s the fact that it exists (the way moms are called) and in fact, some Korean women I encountered prefers to be called otherwise which makes it amusing (but i don’t mean to say it’s wrong). one cannot stand against an established norm in a society i didn’t grow up in:-).

hi jehan – so how are you called pala since you don’t have a baby yet? tapos, your husband is a first son pa int he family.

hi jill – korean language has many (no fewer than 6) different levels of conversational address. It’s quite complicated because you have to consider the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate and plain. re: a woman with more than one child, she will be called by another woman by the name of the child with whom the other woman’s child is friends with. LOL. so if Woman X has Child A and B and Woman Y has Child C and Child C is friends with Child B, Woman Y calls Woman X as “Child B’s omma”. Got it? LOL.

By: Jill@ModernMommyBlog

Jill@ModernMommyBlog — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:18:32 +0000

If that is what a mother prefers then I see no problem with it. But if it is something that is put on her by society or her husband then I do see something wrong. My question is what do they do when they have more than one child or when their child grows up and becomes an adult. Do they go back to their actual name at that point? Jill@ModernMommyBlog´s last blog post..Getting and Keeping the Motivation to Exercise and Eat Right

By: jehan

jehan — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:17:04 +0000

when i first heard my husband call his sis in law "shi-hyeon-omma" i immediately asked him why they call her that. i asked him if can i call her that way too and he explained i have to call her something else (because i'm the wife of the elder brother). i said i'm not comfortable calling her that so i now also call her "shi-hyeon-omma"... i told her to just call me jehan coz she's about 5 years older than me but she wouldnt oblige... jehan´s last blog post..The Seoul Friendship Fair I Attended Solo....

By: betchay

betchay — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:36:17 +0000

hi wendy! it also has something to do with your relationship... i have a married korean friend and we call each other by our first name (hers is Mi Ra)... our kids are of different age and are not friends... it's different though with my son's day care center friends' moms... like one of my son's friend's mom, i call her "Jeongwon-i omma" because our relationship started with our sons being friends betchay´s last blog post..Sympathies for the Lady Doctor