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Taro is correct.  Koreans do not use a middle name.  The given name is two parts.  For example, brothers Ryoo Seung-wan and Ryoo Seung-beom.  Ryoo is the family name.  It would be parsed (and credited) as Ryoo//Seung-wan and Ryoo//Seung-beom.

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Well, I guess Skip and I will just have to agree to disagree on the cultural element. Ignoring cultural elements and official grammar rules is, in my humble opinion, the fastest track to enter erronous or inconsistent data in a database.

Leaving Korean grammar out of the equation, means that the same name could be enter in a multitude of variations:
Yun / Young / Park
Yun Young // Park
Yun // Young Park
And I'm not even starting with variations by switching the last & first name field.

Worse even, by continuing the way we are doing now, we could possibly create CLT results that are incorrect. Taking the above example, we could end up with CLT results that have Yun / Young / Park as the most commonly used name, which in fact is incorrect since Young is not a middle name. It would only help propagate incorrect data.

The way I see it, if the name field in DVDP was just one field, then I would agree with Skip that just copying what is in the credits is sufficient.
However, it's not. We have 3 fields (first, middle, last) and it would only seem logical to me to use those fields addiquately, namely enter a middle name only if there is one. Unfortunately, credits don't expressly show which is what, so the only way to handle this would be to rely on cultural data. If we don't do that, then what's the use of having 3 seperate fields? Might as well throw it all together into one big field.

Still with the above example, let's say I input it as follows:
first: Yun Young
last: Park
This is culturally correct data but also correct copy-paste data from the credits, since that's who his name was spelled in the credits. Isn't that the best of both worlds?

The problem is that the rules currently don't provide for this. This is why I've submitted a draft, which is only a proposal of course, on how to deal with Japanese names and titles. Until such matters are resolved in the rules, I'm afraid that the door remains open for inconsistent and even erronous data to be entered.

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Skip:

I don't have a problem with inputting the data exactly as it appears onscreen. If that is the general rule DVDP wants to go by, I wouldn't mind at all. However, in that case can you answer me these two questions please?

1. If all we are concerned about is entering data as it appears on-screen, then why is the cast & crew data split up into three fields (first, middle, last)? On-screen credits don't make a distinction between those, so all it would require from DVDP is to have just one field, not three.

2. I see the current rules provide for even the tiniest of details for western names, even going as far as telling us how to parse military ranks or how to deal with Jr. and Sr. abreviations. DVDP has gone to great length to explain how to parse western names, yet for Asian names, even the most basic parsing information (first and last name parsing, just to name one) is completely missing. Isn't that a bit of a double standard? On the one hand you say we're not dealing with a cultural database but for western names, that's exactly what we are already doing: dealing with these matters from a western point of view. If you are consequent, then you would have to advocate the removal of all existing parsing rules, including those for western names (Jr, Sr, Dr, Sir, etc all should just be entered as seen on-screen)

Finally, I'd like to point out that you are again taking a condescending tone towards other cultures. I won't go as far as to call you a racist but your mind is very narrowly focussed on western culture. I find remarks such as:
"bowing to their culture"
"perhaps they should only appear in movies which deal with other Asians"
completely inappropriate and offensive. I've never taken a condescending tone towards the parsing of western names in DVDP and I would expect the same form of respect from other users.

I am more than willing to discuss how to deal with parsing of names (any kind of names, western or other) but I will refuse to continue if you utter one more redneck remark towards non-western cultures.