Wan-suk Yoo
Fellows Listing – Fellows — I don’t care how politically incorrect this is to point out, but this guy, who is somewhat famous, must change his name. I mean really! Even as a James Bond character it doesn’t work. I’m reminded of the joke about the fellow who went to a gay Chinese restaurant to order Chicken Chow Mein and Sum Yung Gai.
Where’s Rosie O’Donnell when you need her? I hate mocking odd Asian names. That said there are a number of strange Western names such as Buttman too. And I also think those names should be changed.
That said some years back after a trip back from Korea I did a column in PC Magazine titled, Hu is on First? It began with a send off on the old Abbott and Costello gag using real Chinese and Korean names. If I ever find it I’ll link to it. Anyway, Bill Howard was convinced that we’d get a slew of email saying how insensitive the Hu is on FIrst bit was. The Koreans, amongst all the Asian cultures — as far as I am concerned — have the best sense of humor and I bet we’d get no complaints.
We got no complaints. Nada.
I assume Wan-suk is amused by the situation, seriously.
Wan-suk Yoo Ph.D. – 2005
Dr. Wan-Suk Yoo started his carrier in the international multibody dynamics group when he started a Ph.D. degree at the University of Iowa in 1981. After finishing his Ph.D. degree and post-doctoral experience, he returned back to Pusan National University, Korea and introduced multibody dynamics in the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers. He served department chair from 1987-1989, associate dean at the college of engineering from 1994-1996, director of the METRIC (Mechanical Engineering & Technology Research Information Center) from 1997-2003, director of NRL (National Research Laboratory) for CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) since 2002 to the present. Serving as a general chair for the ACMD2004 (Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics, Seoul, Korea, August 1-4, 2004), he became one of key leaders in the flexible multibody dynamics research. University of Iowa Ph.D. 1985 ME
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Toyota changed the name of it’s MR2 model in France. It spelled “emmerdeur” that meens litterally shitter (jerk).
Does he work here?
Does that translate from Korean into English as John C Dvorak?
One word: Shittake
Btw… It reminds me of this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HiCIQA6Vs
Tee hee. The 1st Korean company I ever represented was a tyre manufacturer named Dae Yung.
Aren’t Asian names surname followed by personal name anyway? – he could just reverse it, and it wouldn’t be quite so bad, and he’d still have his name
I know a man with the name of Jack Hoff.After a few beers he told me that he enjoyed the reaction his name caused.He said that masturbation is very under appreciated in western culture and should be brought up as a topic of conversation more often.He was glad to make his minor contribution.
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Yeah, Yoo Wan-suk sounds better… Just imagine him being a POW:
Interrogator: What’s your name?
Y-W: Yoo Wan-suk
*SMACK*
Interrogator: Again… What’s your name?
Y-W: Yoo Wan-suk
*SMACK* *Interrogator points his gun at Y-W’s head*
Interrogator: For the last time… What’s your name?
Y-W: Yoo Wan-suk
*BANG*
What a name! ewww.
I have a friend named — seriously! — Woody Dick. The first time I got an email from him, I was sure it was a on-line creep.
There was also an article in yesterday’s (Saturday’s) NYT titled, “Hard Times in Snowmobile Land” featuring a photograph of two men affected by the lack of snow in Vermont this year.
One of them was named “Dick Bigwood”. No kidding.
I don’t see anything funny about this post.
Me neither.
It gets worse…!
I had a co-worker that his name is Mee Young-suk Yoo. I’m not joking, swear to God!
Wasn’t it Cream of Sum Yung Gai?
John, I think somebody stole your idea:
http://tinyurl.com/2bymqz
I Googled for funny names but had no luck, I did find this list of funny domain names:
VeteransExchange.com / VeteranSexChange.com
accessTherapist.com / accessTheRapist.com
ADDTherapist.com / addTheRapist.com
aim4therapist.com (and get a free ipod?)
dalesHitchinStation.com / daleShitChinStation.com
dieselsHitmen.com / dieselShitmen.com
aSmashHits.com / asmaShits.com (who’s asma?)
auctionsHit.com / auctionShit.com
beatlesHits.com / beatleShits.com
bollywoodSmashHits.com / bollywoodsMaShits.com
No joke, my brother’s Korean name is spelled Chink-yu. Ah god, the “good” times we had with that one.
For a while that sucked, but having seen a bit of life go by now, I kind of get a kick out of making people uncomfortable with it.
Incidentally, my best friend’s name (also Korean) is Dong. (you can Google that one if credibility is a question)
Yeah, we Koreans get a lot of winning names. Salman Rushdie once said that although things get lost in translation, sometimes something’s also gained. Just wish it wasn’t at our expense. Heh.