A Study on the Fate-improvingTheory by Full Names

Fatalism can be classified into fate-fixed or fate-improving theories. Compatibilism embraces these two opposing concepts. The accumulation of good deeds, neutralization, and propitious sites exists in the fate-improving theory, especially in the fate-improving theory by full names, which has been widespread in Korea since Changsshigaemyeong in the 1940s. Asserting the strong fate-improving theory of full names as the basics or precondition of nameology contributed significantly to making widely it known to people. However, it has also attracted considerable criticism because it is associated with superstition or fortune-telling. Accordingly, examining namingers’ and nameologists’ views on renaming by dividing them into advertising, literature, and previous studies, the above two conflicting arguments appear to have been caused by namingers’ expansion and reproduction of exaggerated advertising for their own income; which is not right. Because there are insufficient studies related to the fate-improving origin and the fate-improving degree is low, the fate-improving possibility is also low; however, this study confirmed and verified the fate-improving theory through the use of full names. However, since this is also being criticized, it is necessary to establish the academic identity of nameology by using the influence of full names instead of the fate-improving theory, reflecting that full names and naming are also the result of these efforts.