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

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:21:35 +0900 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> writes:
> 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.

I don't think we need exact figures here, people with some background
in the culture they speaking about do have some experience, which
serves as a good sample of the usage ( rough statistics). And the numbers

from current registration is a reference too, but a little more bias in
its
certainty.

Liana