{"id":34,"date":"2004-12-08T08:08:01","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-09-16T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T14:30:35","slug":"condoms-the-name-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/condoms-the-name-game\/","title":{"rendered":"condoms: the name game"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SOUTH Korea has shelved a plan to replace the English word for condom with a Korean word after a string of complaints from people with identical or similar sounding names.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean Anti-AIDS Federation said it would drop the use of a suggested new word for condom, &#8220;ae-pil&#8221;, which was derived from the Chinese characters for love and necessity.<\/p>\n<p>The name, picked from 19,000 suggestions sent in by the public, had prompted complaints from many South Koreans with similar-sounding characters in their names, federation official Kim Hoon-soo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An old lady called to complain, saying she was worried about her grandson being teased due to her name being &#8216;condom&#8217;,&#8221; Kim said, adding the federation had dropped its push for a new name.<\/p>\n<p>The federation promotes condom use in South Korea, where only 10 per cent of people use condoms when having sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH Korea has shelved a plan to replace the English word for condom with a Korean word after a string of complaints from people with identical or similar sounding names. The Korean Anti-AIDS Federation said it would drop the use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/condoms-the-name-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-korea","category-korean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}