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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…