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xodn348yesterday at 11:15 PM1 replyview on HN

Good point about compactness — 실명인증계정생성 vs AbstractVerifiedIdentityAccountFactory is a real example where Korean shines.

One distinction though: Han uses actual Korean words, not transliterations. 함수 means "function" in Korean, 만약 means "if" — they're real words Korean speakers already know.

Your example uses transliterations like 펀크 and 아래이 which would look odd to a Korean reader. That difference matters for readability.


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WillAdamstoday at 12:13 AM

Using actual Korean words rather than transliterations greatly aids readability --- I can still remember stumbling over the transliteration of "Walker Hotel" when taking Korean at the Presidio of Monterey, and pretty much everyone else had the same problem.