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Kang is a Korean family name. All together, the holders of this name number are 1,176,847 in South Korea , according to the 2015 national census, ranking 6th largest Korean family name. [ 1 ] While the name "Kang" can actually represent 5 different hanja , or Chinese characters, the great majority (more than 1 million) bear the surname 姜. [ 1 ]
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Jung-ho Kang (Korean: 강정호; Korean pronunciation: [kaŋ.dʑʌŋ.ɦo]; born April 5, 1987) is a South Korean former professional baseball third baseman. He played in the KBO League for the Hyundai Unicorns and Nexen Heroes , as well as in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates .
Additionally, Kan may be a transcription of the common Korean surname Kang (Korean: 강; Hanja: 姜, 江, 康) via the Kontsevich system spelling in the Cyrillic alphabet (Кан). [9] This spelling can be found among ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet Union (Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Koreans). [10] Kan is also a Turkish surname. [3]
Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970 [1]) is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts . [ 2 ] Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian , which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016.
Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by Pierre Borie in captivity.. A cangue (/ k æ ŋ / KANG), in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha (Chinese: 枷) is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia [1] and some other parts of Southeast Asia until the early years of the ...
Kang and Kodos, green one-eyed aliens in The Simpsons; Kang the Conqueror, a Marvel Comics supervillain; Kang , a Klingon warrior in Star Trek television series; Liu Kang, a character in the Mortal Kombat series; Meng Kang, a character in the Water Margin; Kang the Mad, a character in Jade Empire 2005 video game
Kang (康, pinyin: Kāng) is a Chinese surname. It is the 88th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. [1] Kang Senghui (died 280), Buddhist monk of Sogdian origin; Kang Youwei (1858–1927), reformist political figure from the late Qing dynasty; Kang Tongbi (1887–1969), social activist from the early Republic of China period, Kang Youwei's ...