Editing Korean name (section)

===Gender===
Korean given names' correlation to gender is complex and, by comparison to European languages, less consistent.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kim |first=Jong-mi |last2=Go |first2=U-ri |date=December 2024 |title=Sounds of gender: Masculine consonants and feminine vowels in names across languages |url=https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003150863 |journal=Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=401–426 |issn=1226-8690}}</ref>

Certain Sino-Korean syllables carry masculine connotations, others feminine, and others unisex. These connotations may vary depending on whether the character is used as the first or second character in the given name. A ''[[Generation name|dollimja]]'' generational marker, once confined to male descendants but now sometimes used for women as well, may further complicate gender identification. Native Korean given names show similar variation.

A further complication in Korean text is that the singular pronoun used to identify individuals has no gender. This means that automated translation often misidentifies or fails to identify an individual's gender in Korean text and thus presents stilted or incorrect English output. (Conversely, English source text is similarly missing information about social status and age critical to smooth Korean-language rendering.)<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4584353 |title=Determining Gender of Korean Names with Context |last1=Yoon |first1=Hee-geun |last2=Park |first2=Seong-bae |last3=Han |first3=Yong-jin |last4=Lee |first4=Sang-jo |year=2008 |publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] |pages=121–126 |location=[[Dalian]], China |conference=2008 International Conference on Advanced Language Processing and Web Information Technology |doi=10.1109/ALPIT.2008.86 |access-date=2023-08-23 |archive-date=2018-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617155541/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4584353/ |url-status=live }}</ref>