Another useful naming convention to note is that it's pretty common in Korea for siblings to be given names that share a syllable. For example, parents might name their kids Tae-yeon and So-yeon ...

Another Korean naming tradition is that siblings often have the same first syllable of their given name (as well as the same surname, of course), and only the second syllable varies. For instance ...

(CNN)-- Kim Byung-ki has just seen his sister for the first time in 59 years, a sibling he thought was dead until last year. They reunited over the weekend for the first time since the Korean War ...