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Talk about closure, I'm sure those who were part of the scam can rest a little bit easier I hope, albeit at a heavy cost. To me, this was the scariest quote: I
by smaili 9y ago
Talk about closure, I'm sure those who were part of the scam can rest a little bit easier I hope, albeit at a heavy cost.
To me, this was the scariest quote: Isaac Choi aka Yi Suk Choi, Yisuk Choi, Yi Suk Chae and Isaac Chae. I mean seriously, how many names can a person go by?
- brilee 9y agoThe last name Choi is pronounced Chae by Koreans. Don't see why it's so scary to you; Richard and Dick and Rich are in the same boat.
- yongjik 9y agoActually, Choi (최) and Chae (채) are two different surnames, although they do sound similar (and would probably sound almost the same to English speakers). On the other hand, transliteration of Korean personal names is always in a state of total chaos, so using Chae instead of Choi (or vice versa) is not technically wrong... although definitely unconventional.
- gkoberger 9y agoTo be fair, it's really just one name, with various English spellings. Isaac/Yi Suk and Choi/Chae
- eropple 9y agoMany non-English-derived names (predominantly but not exclusively those from Asian cultures--Hebrew comes to mind) transliterate in different ways into English. If he'd had different translators at some point in his life, there may be documents with different variants. Ditto "Isaac", which is close-enough in terms of pronunciation that he may have adopted it later. Or, in other words: there are two names there.
- loeg 9y agoTaking an "American" first name (one that sounds vaguely phonetically similar to the actual first name or not) is a common practice.
- eropple 9y agoI get that; what I was trying to say is that it's "different enough" that most people would call it a pseudonym rather than a transliteration. Hence, two names.
- loeg 9y agoA couple different romanizations of the same Korean name, plus the extremely common convention of taking a common "American" (English) first name. It's not a red flag.