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/2025-03-12
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I heard that it is traditional for women to change their last name to husband's name as they get married. When I first heard about this, I felt awkward because there's no similar culture in Korea. But as I watched dramas or movies of other countries, I got used to the tradition and I'm now just respecting it.
I sometimes think that it has its own advantage. In my opinion changing names after marriage can give stronger feeling of being united. In dramas it seemed like they think very meaningful to have same last name as a family and changing last name after marriage seemed like one of the processes of accepting the person as a member of the family. They are also can be called by their last name using Mr. or Ms. so they can feel like they are more together.
Since there's less types of last names in Korea, I think it would be very meaningless to have the same tradition.
In this point I think having the tradition of changing name and being capable of having it is interesting and fun.
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