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 ::Another consideration or complication about East Asian names is that there are several countries over there were some surnames are Extremely Common - far more common than names like ""Smith"", ""Johnson"", and ""Jones"" are in the English-speaking world. Thus, going around calling out or writing names like ""Wu"", ""Yang"", and ""Wang"" all the time does not work very well. Korea is worse, because over 50% of the people have the surname ""Kim"", and of the rest, there a lot named ""Lee"" or ""Park"". Thus writing articles referring to people as ""Kim"" over and over again is quite useless. They must do it differently in Korean newspapers, magazines, etc. The Vietnamese names written as ""Duong"" and ""Tran"" are extremely common, and maybe others are, too.   "