[of course my first ASL video would have a typo in it, lol]
re 김선, my Korean* birth-name
yes, my Korean name translates to Kim Sun, which means that my surname is Kim, and my first name is Sun, which is unusual given that Koreans are typically (very typically despite some Koreans telling me that it's becoming more common, except that I never met a single other person, much less a school-aged child whom I taught during the five years we spent consecutively in the country before making it our second home, with a singular-syllable first name, not once, so I am not sure what to make of this "information") named with two-syllable first names and the father's last name, but if you do not believe me and want to blame the uniqueness of my name to clerical error when adopted to the United States, feel free; what the fuck do I care?, because what I know for Fact is that my birth-grandfather named me, and he named me as such for very specific reasons, and yes, I've met him in person along with my birth-grandmother and their child, my birth-father, oh, and I have a birth-half-sister to whom I'm related through this same birth-father and whom I've also met, oh, and I've also met my birth-mother along with her two sons, my half-birth-brothers. I'm the oldest of four, if all of us were to come together as one happy family (which will never happen). So if you have a problem with my Korean name because you do not believe that I was purposefully named with a singular syllable, or dislike that I use it, go fuck yourself, and then go find my birth-grandfather in Seoul, South Korea, and take it up with him.
"A 김치 Story"
*and yes, this is all (sadly) very relevant as I have seen the look on the faces of Koreans who ask if I have a Korean name, and when I reveal it, they look at me in a way. It's hard to explain, but it's a mix of "she's so full of herself" and "she obviously has no clue that her name is a mistake" or something to that effect.