Koreans and their names

There are 2 koreans who work with me in the Phoenix shopping centre.

"What are you planning to do after this?" I asked from Seo.

He says something in korean to another guy, who gives his phone to Seo and Seo translates something in it and shows me a result: "Archeologist".

"You wanna become archeologist?" I asked.

"Hmmhmm", he nods.

"Indiana Jones", says another guy and laughs.

"So you like digging?", I asked and realised that it wasn t appropriate question.

"History, lots of history in Korea", he tries to explain what he is into.

"You like to dig gold? Silver?" 

"Yes, yes"

Finally I figured out he also wants to go to school, to become an archeologist. It costs 24 000 dollars to study archerology in Korea, (South Korea).

"Very expensive in Korea," he repeated.

"You want to earn to money, save it from here and study in Korea and become archeologist?" I asked  to help him out from explaining.

"Yes, yes, thanks", he was laughing.

"24 000 dollars  for studies!

"Yes, yes," he kept repeating.

I met another korean guy one year ago up in North Queensland. He also earned money for studies.

I stood up and said good bye.

Saw him later and asked his name.

"My name is Seo in korean, but in english it is Fetri."

"Fetri. Fetry?. I just felt it s not really english. More like korean or, italian? Well, but definitely not english.

I asked why he changed his name.

"My paren, parent, parents..parents told me I need to change name for english."

I didn t quite understand why his parents asked him to change or was it his parents who commanded to change. It almost sounded to me that he had to change because his parents told so.

I might got him wrong too.

But it wasn t Ferri. 

"So your name is Seo in korean and Fetri.."

"Yes, Pee, a.." he spelled.

"Wait, is it Patrick?"

"Yeah- yeah-yeah, Patry."

"Ah, Patrick, not Fetry.." we laughed.

"Ok, see you later."

I don t know why they always change their real names. You never get to know their real names unless you actually ask for it.

But I like them, they are cool. Very friendly always.