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Multinationals of Lemmy: How do you deal with names across borders?

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My two kids have dual nationalities (korean and another). The oldest the korean consulate in my home country for reasons we never understood they registered his name on his passport. So when filling forms, buying tickets etc using his korean ID his given/first names is actually his middle name. This has caused a lot of problems, specially when compared side by side both of his IDs.

For the youngest one we filled the paperwork following the same pattern of the oldest, which the korean consulate guys said was correct. However, when his passport arrived his name was … for which the consulate workers just scratched their heads and said uhh yeah anyways…

Edit: another example to follow OPs topic, my wife is korean and her passports list her name in both Hangul (korean) and Roman alphabet. Korean with Last/First + “Middle” and Roman as first + middle + last. Her IDs abroad use the roman name.

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Booking.com under fire as hundreds of complaints lodged with Fair Trading

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I’ve tried, many times. And almost always the hotels own website either didn’t have rooms available or the price was higher. So i stay with booking.com. Luckily never had a problem, and I like to book several free cancellation hotels til I have the travel dates set. But yeah I really wish I could get better prices directly, I even called a hotel in my last trip to japan and they had higher prices

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Is there a business in your town, which you are 100% sure is a front?

There’s a macaron shop near my work that has no business (!) being that large, downtown. It has a very fancy shopfront and website, I’ve called to pretend to order one time and it was quite expensive.

I’ve never even seen cars/vans/bikes/whatever taking away their order there (it’s delivery only).

It’s super weird, macarons are not even that popular around here, theres another better known macaron place that is tiny compared to this one

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