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Additionally, prominent Korean-American men with Korean names include "Maze Runner" actor Ki Hong Lee, Forever 21 founder Do Won Chang, video art pioneer Nam June Paik, "Train to Busan" actor Ma ...
Korean personal names. United States: Central Intelligence Agency. 1962. OCLC 453054. Price, Fiona (2007). "Chapter 6: Korean names". Success with Asian names: a practical guide for business and everyday life. Intercultural Press. ISBN 9781857883787
A certain name written in Hangul can be a native Korean name, or a Sino-Korean name, or even both. For example, Bo-ram (보람) can not only be a native Korean name, [21] but can also be a Sino-Korean name (e.g. 寶濫). [22] In some cases, parents intend a dual meaning: both the meaning from a native Korean word and the meaning from Hanja.
Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people (about 1 in every 60 South Koreans) applied to change their names; 730,277 were approved.
Some prominent Korean-American figures with Korean names include novelist and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, journalist Kyung Lah, "Lost" actor Yunjin Kim, novelist Min Jin Lee, U.S. Representative ...
Ha-neul, also spelled Ha-nul, is a Korean unisex name. Unlike most Korean given names, which are composed of two single-syllable Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja, Ha-neul is an indigenous Korean name: a single two-syllable word meaning "sky". As a name, it may loosely be interpreted as an exhortation to "spread your dreams high ...
Sun-young, also spelled Seon-young or Seon-yeong, is a Korean unisex given name, predominantly feminine. It was the ninth- most popular name for baby girls born in South Korea in 1970, and held the same rank in 1980.
People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include: Sim Hun (born Sim Daeseop, 1901–1936), Korean novelist; Isao Harimoto (born Jang Hun, 1940), Zainichi Korean baseball player; Kim Hoon (born 1948), South Korean novelist; Suh Hoon (born 1954), South Korean government official; Chung Hoon (born 1969), South Korean judo practitioner