Due to the influence of ancient China, most Korean names consist of three Chinese characters. The surname comes first, and the remaining two characters are the given name, and there is usually a character between these two characters that represents seniority. There are about 300 surnames in South Korea, but most people in the country only have a few surnames. The most common surnames are: Jin, Li, Pu, Cui, Zheng, An, Zhang, Zhao, Chen, Han, Jiang, Liu, Yin, etc. There are also some compound surnames, such as Nangong, Huangfu, Sikong, Xianyu, Zhuge, Ximen, Dugu, Dongfang, etc. During the Three Kingdoms period in ancient Korea, Goguryeo and Baekje had more compound surnames, as well as Eulji, Gongsun, Linghu, Sima, Xiahou, etc.
If you want to talk about the translation of Korean names, you must first talk about the relevant knowledge of Korean. Korean, like Japanese, originated from Chinese characters. Chinese characters were introduced to Korea in the Tang Dynasty. Later, King Sejong of Korea invented Korean. The word is the Korean character you see now. It is a pinyin character that represents the pronunciation of Chinese characters in Korea. Each Chinese character has a corresponding pronunciation in Korea. For example: the corresponding pronunciation of time tense in Korean is ?2?7(xi).
Let’s take a look at Korean names. Korean names are actually named with Chinese characters (at least most of them. Some young people today use Korean pronunciation for names that do not correspond to Chinese characters. But it is a minority phenomenon). For example, Kim Hee Sun, his name in Korea is Kim Hee Sun. The corresponding Korean character expression is ?8?1?6?1?1?3, and the pronunciation in Chinese pinyin is kinhisen.
So, when China translates a Korean name, if conditions permit, it will look up his/her own name in Chinese characters; if conditions do not exist, such as when translating the names of characters in novels, it will look for her/her name. The Chinese characters corresponding to the pronunciation of the Korean characters in