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Well, when it comes to Korean last names, there's a whole world of history, meaning, and often some symbolism thrown in! From the ubiquitous Kim to the rare gems that'll make even native Korean ...
List of Korean surnames. This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee (이) and Park (박). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics ...
Jung, Jeong, Joung, Chung, Cheong. Jung is a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정", also often spelled Jeong, Chung, Joung or Jong. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 2,407,601 people by this name in South Korea or 4.84% of the population. [1] The Korean family name "정" is mainly derived from three ...
Yoo (Korean surname) Yoo or Yu, or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo, is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as 유 or 류 in hangul. As of 2000, roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea, making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those, the most common is Ryu (Hanja: 柳, Hangul: 류), [1] with more than six ...
Lee, I, or Yi (이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population. [1] Historically, 李 was officially written as Ni (니) [2] in Korea. The spelling officially changed to I (이) in 1933 when the initial ...
Kan (surname) Kang (Korean surname) Ki (Korean surname) Kim (Korean surname) Ko (Korean surname) Kong (surname) Kook (surname) Kwak (surname) Kwon.
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The 2000 South Korean census found 180,141 people with these family names. [2] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports , it was found that 97.0% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Woo in their passports, while only 1.6% spelled it as Wu.