How we write your name in Hangul

This service writes your name in Hangul. It does not give you a Korean name. Michael becomes 마이클 — the same name, written so Koreans can read and say it. We do not swap it for a Korean name that happens to mean something similar.

If a Korean name is what you want, that is a different service. One keeps your name and changes only the script; the other proposes a new name.

Every language has sounds Korean lacks — f, v, z, th, and vowel distinctions Korean does not make. For those we write what a Korean speaker actually says when they read your name aloud, rather than transcribing the original phonetics symbol by symbol. The goal is the spelling that will be used, not the most technically faithful one.

The same spelling can differ depending on where a name comes from, so we ask for your language and country and work from that pronunciation.

There is no single right answer. The spelling closest to the original sound, the one most commonly used in Korea, and the one easiest to write are often three different things. So we show them together and say what separates them.

If none of them feel right, you can add a hint about the sound you want and run it again — for example, that a particular syllable should be written differently.