So, I’m watching the Cubs game last night, and I see Prince Fielder at the plate. He’s got a tattoo on his neck.
왕자 means “Prince” in Korean. Korea Beat has the story behind the tattoo:
About 2 or 3 years ago he went into a market in Florida and talked with a Korean working there as a clerk, and learned that his name means 왕자 in Korean. He took a paper with 왕자 written on it and went straight to a tattoo parlor.
Though he doesn’t have any special connection to Korea, Fielder lives with Korean daily and says “I used to know how to pronounce it but now I forgot.”
Of course, if it were me, I’d have put a 지 at the end of it… (dumb, crass joke).
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