 After the "creation of a family name", a Korean had three names which are a family name "shi", a clan name "sei", and a personal name "mei" (first name), all of which are recorded in a person's family register along with the origin place of the clan, "bon-gwan".Since all members of a family share the same family name "shi", wife's "shi", and hence the first character in her legal name, would be the same as her husband's, which differed from the traditional Korean clan name "sei", whereby a wife kept her original "sei" even after marriage (see table).Besides that, selection of a "shi" with a Japanese-style reading could also be approved; to go along with such a "shi", it was also permissible to change one's given name to a Japanese-style name; as the change of given name was voluntary, a fee would be charged for it.