), and I've written my entire "novel" (it's a

Foreign names don't break immersion..... in fact they enhance immersion.

If the CEO of a fictional mega Korea corporation were named Dan Smith that would break immersion.

However, a hard to pronounce foreign name does deter a lot of less sophisticated readers.

One of my friends calls ALL Asian leaders Ho Chi Minh.... He isn't a racist. He just can't process non-english names. So he just substitutes the only name known to him to every asian person.

So imagine him reading a novel with foreign names...

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