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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by donpark on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:10AM (#19977975)
Same for Koreans. Capitalizing the first character of the 'generational' name and lowercase for given name could work.

But I think emphasizing the given name offers better UX so given name should be all caps and family name should be all lowercase like this: YUNG Kam soh or soh Kam YUNG.

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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by Freak_NL on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:11AM (#19978270)
> But I think emphasizing the given name offers better UX […]

How? You are introducing a custom capitalization convention nobody uses. People expect the UPPERCASED name, if present, to be the surname (or whatever you can sensible put after Mr/Ms). Going against strong conventions is not a good user experience.

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