Re: [idn] Question for the Kanji & Hanja cognosentee

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 16:49 01/08/17 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
>Two corrections:
> > Yes, but rarely.
> > some japanese/chinese restaurants in SEOUL Korea
> >  have the primary name in Hanja(Kanji).
> > Most korean individuals/companies won't pay for
> > rarely used HANJA domains, I guess.
>
>That may change near future..
>
>Recently, Korean Goverments began to encourage
>HanJa education/Hanja Usages in addition to English ones.
>You know the economic block of Eastern Asia is rapidly
>expanding its power... :-)

I think the trend for more Hangul or more Hanja comes
and goes like waves in Korea. There are actually similar
waves in North Korea, but of course with different
amplitutde and wavelength.



> > In my rough estimation, most frequent 5000 hangul personal full names
> > form the set of distinct fullnames of about 90% of korean populations.
> >
>Oh my mistake.  5000 ====> 100,000.
>
>100,000 distinct fullnames, and 5,000 distinct given(first) names acount
>for 90% of individual names of south korean population,based on the personal
>study on 600,000 samples of korean fullnames.

Do you have the numbers for family names also? I guess it must
be something like "100 most frequent family names cover 99% of the population",
but it would be nice to know exact figures based on such a large sample.


Regards,    Martin.