My Name
"Should I call you Chloe or Nayoung?" Before I gained US citizenship and had my name legally as Chloe, everyone called me "Nayoung." My Korean name - Na (나) and Young (영) - means "shine bright in the world." I hope I live it up to this meaning because I genuinely think it's captivating and stunning. Something that I find really surprising and hilarious is that during the time I was born, Korean doctors would choose names for their patient's babies according to the specific time they were born, hence my Korean name is Nayoung because I was born at 6:40 am. Knowing this, I found it confusing, maybe even weirded out, when I heard my friends saying their parents chose their names. I don't think I care too much about the origins of my name since I never had a problem with it, but I am curious about what other name I could have been called. However, I don't think I'll ever know what it is because my parents forgot the other option (nice one)....