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

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>; "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>; <liana.ydisg@juno.com>
Cc: <liana.ydisg@juno.com>; <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] Question for the Kanji & Hanja cognosentee


> 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.
> 

I agree.

> 
> 
> > > 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.
>
I have  a report that says:
 Top 5 familiy names :  54%
 top  50 family names:  97%
  top 100   "                   : 99.6%

 Soobok


 
> 
> Regards,    Martin.
>