Both MC and ML have Korean names and English names I guess for ease of living abroad. Good chunk of Eastern Asians does it like that. TBH I'm from Europe and I often use English name when speaking English cos I'm over people not even hearing and thoroughly butchering the different sounds in my proper name.
A lot of ppl do it for social integration, esp. as immigrants.
And yes, my name is difficult to hear, esp. Over the phone. After I've said my name, they still say "Lisa"? And it's not ANYWHERE close to my name. And when it's written, in it's original language, obviously it is pronounced correctly, but in the English language there is no equivalent, and even ppl who have immigrated like I did butchers my name too since it's way too "unique" and isn't something they're used to hearing.
I'd never get used to a non-birth given name, so I've never changed it. But once you're an adult or had your citizenship it's hard to change your name. I had a classmate in H.S. changed her legal name, I had wondered why. I liked her original name. Both sounded good, to be honest. But when I had commented on why she had changed it, and it was both first and last names, not just her first name, when it was so nice. But it's cool you can change your name. And she'd said that but it makes all the paperwork such a pain. Cuz literally ALL of your life documents will have to be transferred. And like your school certificates, transcripts, etc. You'd have to keep explaning and providing info for everything pertaining to your previous title. Sounds like a pain to me.
Had another friend did the same thing. Had known him forever and it was a name in my mother tongue, but then in his senior year also changed his name. But I will always and forever his native name. And the change again was drastic too. He not only took in an English first name, and had a change of last name as well, though that remained the same native last name. And but I'm so used to his original birth-given name. So whenever he would come to kind or referring to him it would always slip into that name naturally.
A lot of different Asians (not just East Asians) do. All my viet friends have a Vietnamese name and a western name they got when they were baptized. I personally just started to use an easier to say nickname when I was in grade school. I legally changed my name to my nickname when I got married but kept my real first name as my middle name.
Also to the original commenter, a relevant example of someone Korean with a Western name would be Hwasa and “Maria” which she made into a song.
Ah I was referring to this virtual boy group PLAVE having members with the same names
Sex is often used to hold power over the head of one party to bend them into submission but put that in the omegaverse context and you'll have a couple whose power imbalance gets even more pronounced by the nature of the world they live in.
Also, what's with mc's names? Yejun and Noah?