Hi,

I am a Canadian guy and my wife is Korean. We are trying to find out information about naming our baby that will be coming in about 6 months.

Does anyone know the process for naming your baby in Korea and Canada?
Can they have different names in Korea and in Canada with different passports? Does this cause issues?

My wife and I had agreed on using her Korean last name and a Korean name in Korea, but we are unsure how to register in Canada and the baby would have my last name in English?

Example (real names not used):
In Canada: John Woo Jin Kim Doe
In Korea: 김우진 (Kim Woo Jin)

I know that the rules have changes and especially searching some blogs online and even here.

Anyone have any experience in this that could help out?

Any help is appreciated even from your experience.

Thanks in advance!!

Jeff

Congrats!

Dual citizens can have different names in their passports. It's not illegal.
We chose a first name with 2 syllables that works in both languages, easily pronounced and understood etc.
In Korea we used my wife's last name and back home we registered the same first name but with my last name. For example: Kim Mina and Mina Smith.
Not sure about how the Canadian Consulate handles it. I know that some countries require not only the birth cert. from the hospital but also the Korean family registry paper.
One thing is sure: the Korean authorities don't really care whether the child has another citizenship or what name they are registered with in another country.
For us it worked like this: I got an English birth cert. issued by the hospital. They gave me a paper to write down whatever name I wanted. Issued the certificate and stamped it etc. so it looked authentic and all. The hospital also issued a Korean birth cert. but that one didn't even have a name on it for the baby. Just ''wife name's baby''
I took the English one to the consulate and they processed it from there. Wife went to the district office with the Korean birth certificate and registered our child with whatever name she wanted to write on the form.
Also note that it's pretty easy to change a baby's name in Korea. Just pay a few thousand won and fill out a form.
So if Canada wants to see the English birth cert. and the Korean registry paper with the same name on them, you can first register the baby in Korea with a name you want to have in their Canadian passport. Register the child at your embassy with said documents. Once that's done, you can go back to your local office and change the baby's name to what you want to use on the Korean papers.

I would choose a name that is cool in both cultures.

Especially sounds that travel.

Min-young
Min-ju
Bo-min

(no Jin-ho or Min-ho or other -ho.... in English that girl would receive countless insults).

The first student name I remembered was Yu-jin (memory trick: You -drink- gin).

Even worse bud.
Bitch.

We just used the exact same name for both the Korean hospital records and birth certificate and for our come countries' records. Figured it would save us a lot of potential hassle down the line.
Also, Korea has become a lot less picky regarding name character counts, so that wasn't an issue at all.


Of course, at our eorinijib, they shorten his name, and the way they pronounce that nickname  turns it into a girl's name. I mean, they've also dressed him up in a pink tutu and fairy wings, and gave him a doll and a glittery magic wand to carry around, so I guess it's just par for the course. 

Why are legitimate posts questioning someone's responses being deleted? 

강방미 & 박미순 work well in both languages.

Post drinking regret for our paragon mod

I think so.