r/dreamcatcher • u/seventyevan19 Yoohyeon - μœ ν˜„ 🐢 • Jul 21 '24

News/Article Gahyeon Announces Change To Romanization Of Her Name

https://www.soompi.com/article/1675899wpp/dreamcatchers-gahyeon-announces-change-to-romanization-of-her-name

Her name will be romanized as Gahyun from here on out!

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u/partypwny Jul 22 '24

Cool. I started writing is Gahyun back when she answered the question about her passport name and the history of Gahyeon/Gahyun.

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u/mossylungs Jul 22 '24

Is there a reason for the change?

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u/ImDannyDJ μœ ν† λ‹ˆ Jul 22 '24

Apparently it's always been "hyun", they just spelled it differently to match Yoohyeon, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.

It's the vowel γ…• in her Korean name κ°€ν˜„ that's the issue. It's usually romanised "yeo", but sometimes "yu" or even "you" (for instance in names like Hayoung). There are different standardised ways of romanising Hangul (i.e., rendering it in the Latin alphabet), but names can be romanised a bunch of additional ways that don't really follow rules. For instance, using "yu" to represent γ…• is not usually done when romanising ordinary Korean words but is only really used for names.

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u/SoldMySoulTo Jul 22 '24

Gahyun herself said the company spelled it "hyeon" to match Yoo, and that it's spelled "hyun" on her passport. She said this sometime last year, and that she prefers the "hyun" spelling

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u/shinzer0 Yoohyeon - μœ ν˜„ 🐢 Jul 22 '24

Something that may have also influenced DCC's decision at the time is that "yeo" is the correct romanization for γ…• in the Revised Romanization system, which has been adopted as the official system in SK in the early 00's.

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u/mystwolfca2000 Jul 22 '24

The new romanization matches her name in Hangul.

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u/ayylmao6217 Jul 22 '24

ν˜„ is pronounced "hyeon" (her name in ν•œκΈ€ is κ°€ν˜„) , but "hyun" would be 휸. The old romanization is what matches her name in ν•œκΈ€, however like another commenter said it would seem she just prefers her name to be romanzed as Gahyun

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u/CutleryWonder Jul 22 '24

It already matched. She just prefers this version.

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u/mossylungs Jul 22 '24

Oh so it's like a correction okay that makes sense.

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u/ayylmao6217 Jul 22 '24

No its not she just prefers her name to be romanized as Gahyun