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in reply to a message by halfstargazer
I assume you think this is Korean because of Hettienne Park:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782292/bio
As you can see her profile on IMDB claims she was named after a "bird in a Korean fairy tale." I suppose that's possible, but the spelling Hettienne is frankly very odd for a Korean name and must have been "Frenchified" from a Korean original, if it is in fact Korean at all. You have to be careful about the explanations of stage names given by actors and actresses. Some of them have been known to make up stories for the media that sound good but really aren't true. Yul Brynner used to tell reporters his first name was Mongolian for "beyond the horizon", when it was just a Russified version of Jules, the name of his Swiss-born grandfather.
You'd have to find someone who knows about Korean folk tales to recover a possible Korean original for the name and have it interpreted, I think. :)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782292/bio
As you can see her profile on IMDB claims she was named after a "bird in a Korean fairy tale." I suppose that's possible, but the spelling Hettienne is frankly very odd for a Korean name and must have been "Frenchified" from a Korean original, if it is in fact Korean at all. You have to be careful about the explanations of stage names given by actors and actresses. Some of them have been known to make up stories for the media that sound good but really aren't true. Yul Brynner used to tell reporters his first name was Mongolian for "beyond the horizon", when it was just a Russified version of Jules, the name of his Swiss-born grandfather.
You'd have to find someone who knows about Korean folk tales to recover a possible Korean original for the name and have it interpreted, I think. :)
This message was edited 12/12/2009, 11:02 AM
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