What are the common practices for writing Korean names?


Some manga made by Korean writers and illustrators write their names entirely
with kanji (especially without any clue as to how to pronounce them), while
credits in anime write Korean staffers' names entirely with romanized forms.

So what are the common practices for writing Korean names? Which of them is
the most common? How do you go about the correct Han characters for those
Korean names? Do you ask them (it's not like every Korean has their name
readily available in Han characters, is it?)? And do newspapers use furigana
for the names?




It seems that the only common rule on Korean personal names throughout the
Japanese society is that they are not read aloud in on-yomi of kanji.

Newspaper companies have different policies on how to write Korean names. NHK
recently changed their policies to write them basically in katakana, while
Asahi writes kanji along with katakana as furigana. But katakana is used for
less official and less famous people like K-pop singers and actors.

In informal and private contexts, people seem to do as they want to. Those who
don't have little interest in Korea may not know the kanji for Korean names
and would use katakana if they should have a chance to write one, for they can
write it the way it is read aloud in news and other media.

