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Re:Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars... by yongjik on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:44AM (#35769169)
Hmm, I don't think anyone with a passing knowledge of Japanese would look at that "hyun" and think it sounds Japanese ...

It's spelled that way because it was born before Korea's industrialization, when regular transliteration of Korean was pretty far down the list of concerns. Everybody just grabbed whatever sequence of alphabets that vaguely resembled the original sound, a tradition still continuing with names of people and companies.

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