Date: 3/11/2011
This post came about because I ran into a guy this weekend who introduced himself as "Hi. My name is Laef. But my Korean Name is Joe." I had never heard of a foreigner having a Korean name. Korean students take English names...but I had never heard of the opposite.
It turns out that I don't have the worst English name in Korea.
As you might now, my name in Korean means Catfish. I actually spend five minutes every 1st day of class explaining to my students that I am not "the Fish teacher." I run up and down the aisles in my class yelling, "Bulgogi Sasenim!" (Fish teacher, fish teacher!) It gets a lot of giggles and we then spend a few minutes listening and repeating: "M-AH-ggie." (not M-eh-ggie)
Well, I met a man this weekend who has a worse name. His name is Laef. (Like the 80's child star singer superstar). His name doesn't have a Korean translation--the sad? funny? part of his name is how Koreans try to pronounce his name. They turn the "F" into "P" and then the "L" to an "R".
[giving you a second to figure it out...]
Yep, that's right. He is "Rape Teacher."
I would pick another name too....
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