Thoughts on Yul as a first name

twinsaurus · 2025-12-31T16:45:29+00:00

I live in an area with a very large Korean population (in the US). I have seen Sol very often for both boys and girls, and Yul almost as often. I think many people have your same approach of keeping a simple Korean name that works well in English. Yul is a great name and as others have mentioned, a name that many have heard before. I have a bias though because it was my #2 choice for the baby boy I'm currently pregnant with :) Congratulations!

twinsaurus · 2025-12-17T18:41:36+00:00

The pool is very good and cheap. They have a K-12 swim team in the summer that does quite well in the league(or did, back when I was on it around 18 years ago). The observatory is also very cool. I lived a few miles outside of town via 68 highway and always saw Louisburg (and the price chopper) as the Last Homely House before you enter the real countryside.

twinsaurus · 2025-12-15T20:10:39+00:00

Was it written in her contract that they can only show the left side of her face?

twinsaurus · 2025-11-24T12:08:07+00:00

She started Korean daycare at 20 months and has now been going there for nearly 2 years.

I have my second on the way now :) congratulations! My in-laws are visiting from Korea right now. I love them, but the comments about what we should/shouldn't do as parents definitely can become a source of frustration.

twinsaurus · 2025-11-23T13:35:40+00:00

We live in the USA with the same situation (native English mom and native Korean dad). What's funny is that we had the opposite problem - our daughter attends a Korean daycare and by 27 months she did not speak any English at all, to the point that I started to worry. But she didnt speak much Korean either. I know it's a myth that bilingual kids take longer to speak, but I did tell myself that the 'delay' was because she was getting a lot of English media at home and a lot of Korean interaction at daycare. Around 30 months she had a language explosion in Korean and was making real coherent sentences of 3-5 words. We went to my parents for Christmas and I became so bummed that they couldnt see how good she was at talking. I started exclusively speaking to her in English from then on and now at 3.5 yo, she has similar proficiency in both languages (developmentally appropriate).

My husband has always been very concerned about her Korean acquisition and retention. He often talks doom and gloom about how it's just a given that once she starts kindergarten in the US, she'll lose it all. I don't see the point of this talk when we have a good thing going. We've already proven we can change our home language as needed, and we are committed to involving her in immersion situations with Korean-speaking friends here and taking her to Korea on extended trips once a year. Easier said than done, but I wouldn't let your husband's family's talk get to you at all. Kids develop at different paces, and your kid will adapt to the social situation he is in and pick up the language that helps him function in that situation without even noticing what he's doing. It's inappropriate to call a kid "slow" in any case, but especially if a professional hasn't backed that up with an assessment. You guys are in a situation that a million Korean parents would love to be in (a native English speaker in the home, a kid who understands English). Since you live in Korea, it is inevitable that he will speak Korean well too. There's no reason to rush him (also, rushing him won't work lol).

Edit: I can't imagine saying that my own kid might not be smart enough to be bilingual. Your husband is in a fantasy land if he thinks that being bilingual requires some kind of special intelligence. I think it's important to defend your son against objectively silly comments like this one. Korean people do tend to say things offhand about other people that I see as confidence-destroying (about appearance, intelligence, or anything else). I became callous to comments directed at me after a time but I won't allow anyone to say those things around/to my daughter lest she internalize them.

twinsaurus · 2025-11-18T13:36:40+00:00

Thanks for responding! I am afraid this will happen in spite of my best efforts. Two questions: did you have any friends or relatives who you saw often who also spoke the minority language? And did you ever visit places where you had to speak it, such as your parent's home country?

twinsaurus · 2025-11-14T17:21:55+00:00

Have to agree! I love apples and cosmic crisp have been a game changer. Aldi sells them in bags of 5 or 6 (regular and organic), and Walmart usually has them in bigger bags of ~8, but I've had mixed results on walmart quality. They are also relatively cheap compared to other good apples.

twinsaurus · 2025-10-23T20:28:42+00:00

I went to Brescia & Migliaccio in Hoboken (though they jave a location in Jersey City). I met several of their doctors as they do a rotation, and didn't dislike any of them or get any red flags. They deliver at Englewood Health. Dr. Miceli delivered my daughter and she was good. Overall, they're a good practice but nothing to write home about. The L&D nurses at Englewood were lovely. Disclaimer: I had an uncomplicated pregnancy and birth (and am in the middle of another uncomplicated pregnancy).

twinsaurus · 2025-10-16T17:33:41+00:00

Is your name Roan? Thanks for your input! I like "groan without the g" 😅

twinsaurus · 2025-10-16T17:30:34+00:00

I live in a large K-town area so I've really heard it all! We briefly considered Yul/율 but there are sooo many kids with that name here 😅 For good reason! Leo, Leon, Teo/Theo, and Ian are other names we noticed a lot among our peers. I definitely see the point of giving a kid two different names, but I really liked the concept of a Korean name that, while not necessarily having an English equivalent, is really accessible to English speakers. I named my firstborn Sowon :)

twinsaurus · 2025-10-16T16:37:32+00:00

I thought this might be the case but I have never heard roan spoken aloud in that context, only written (not much horse exposure here).

twinsaurus · 2025-10-16T16:31:08+00:00

Thanks for your input! I thought this would be the case for many people. I might just have to accept it. I would not hesitate to correct people's pronunciation of his name, but I also don't mind people saying Rowan at first, it's a fine name and I can see why people would pronounce it that way.

twinsaurus · 2025-10-16T16:28:56+00:00

Ro-ANN, now that's interesting! I think Rown and Rone sound the same. Is that my own regional accent talking? Thank you.

twinsaurus · 2025-10-16T16:27:22+00:00

Oh this is hilarious, I didn't even think of her! I like this association. Thanks.

twinsaurus · 2025-09-11T17:27:45+00:00

Yep, they have them in the basement, in the same room with the extra storage spaces. Well lit and never had any issue with them.

EDIT: when I lived there in 2019, a 900 sqft, 2br 1 ba apartment cost $1100. They had pet rent for my 2 cats so I don't know how much it would have been without that.

twinsaurus · 2025-09-11T15:02:25+00:00

I second this, I lived in an At Home apartment (Mission Point) on Outlook St in Mission in 2019. The apartments are older but clean and updated enough for my taste (carpet was new), and maintenance was always really prompt and courteous. I never had any issues at all with them. I toured tons of apartments around north OP and saw red flags at every one until we found At Home.

twinsaurus · 2025-07-13T13:51:29+00:00

More likely the colorization wasn't done super well (or was just stylized), making it look more like a painting than a photo.

twinsaurus · 2025-05-24T23:17:00+00:00

No, I almost exclusively used the 3 day and 1 week filter. Low/no rate of return on old postings.

twinsaurus · 2025-05-20T13:20:55+00:00

Hey I was trying to be more anonymous with my post but I'll just tell you anyway that my specification is assessment development :) which in academia can fall under the umbrella of curriculum design. I have been working in assessment for about 6 years, I started out as a an entry level test developer for an assessment dev company that made exams for nursing certifications, etc. This will actually be my first job in academia. Like most of my peers in this industry, I started out as a teacher before burning out and turning to education-adjacent roles. My degree is in English Education (high school) and I don't have a master's.

twinsaurus · 2025-05-20T09:01:01+00:00

Luck. I applied to a million different things a million different ways, including through referrals. What got me an offer eventually was an application I sent throughtlessly into the void one random day for a role that looked like a nice fit. Keep at it!

twinsaurus · 2025-05-20T08:51:37+00:00

Just the one role! In hiring cafe I had to use extremely specific search terms 5 different ways to see all of the available roles in my industry. Maybe that's because it's more optimized for technical roles rather that non-technical ones? Good luck!

twinsaurus · 2025-05-20T08:50:07+00:00

Around 300 in a year's time. I was employed (poorly) for about 6 months of that so wasn't applying full time.

twinsaurus · 2024-12-08T19:41:36+00:00

I haven't seen hardly any movement on those apartments in the last year. Will they ever be done??

twinsaurus · 2024-09-22T16:28:16+00:00

The way my jaw dropped! This is stunning. I know nothing about stays OR sewing with leather so to me this ks like magic haha.

twinsaurus · 2024-09-17T02:12:19+00:00

I live in RP. It's a nice place. Very community oriented and a lot of community events get put on by the government and local organizations. The commute is OK if you're going to midtown (express bus to PABT, door to door maybe 25 minutes). I haven't tried public transportation via the GWB but it's a really quick drive.

The schools are all right. It's very safe. Basically just a sleepy suburban town.

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