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It's actually easy enough to be done in 30 minutes (the guide says 15 but I'm old and slow): https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/

you simply insert padding-vocals and "silences" to make the syllable stuff line up, my name (Igor) becomes (silence)I-go-ru.

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That sounds more like a Japanese transliteration. Korean provides for the "gor" to be expressed in a single character. 이 "ee" 골 "gor"

Korean consonants have slightly different sounds at the beginning and end of a syllable. ㄹ is pronounced as L at the end of a block, but R at the beginning of one, hence the additional syllable.

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