Koreans' full names usually consist of 3-4 syllables, thus, a large number of databases in Korea simply were not designed to store long [western] names. It does hurt sometimes. For instance, my company uses the first 3 characters of my _given name_ as my _family name_, and the last 3 characters of my _given name_ as my... well, given name. They simply could not store my full name (17 bytes) to their database.

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