How can I tell what the sortname should be for a artist like 김종환 when I can read Korean?
A Google search for the artist name will usually turn up an entry in some page that gives a transliteration. In this case, the second page of results for 김종환 turned up an entry in kpopdb.com the Korean Pop artist database. Adding a link to such a page as the edit note for the Edit Artist Name is strongly encouraged, even for AutoEdit’s whose changes will go through without voting. In particular, the yesasia.com music vendor site is one that has English versions for all their pages, including transliterations of the artist name; searching for an artist’s Asian name and yesasia may turn up a relevant yesasia.com page. Their English transliterations are sometimes less common than other alternate forms, but they are always worth entering as aliases. Another trick is to look at the URLs. Since non-European characters in URLs must be %-encoded, website developers often use English transliterations of artist names in the URL paths. Additional searches with the original name and the relevant p
