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Soh Jaipil
Seo Jae-pil (; January 7, 1864 – January 5, 1951), better known by his English name Philip Jaisohn, was a Korean Americans, Korean American politician, physician, and Korean independence movement, Korean independence activist. He was the first Korean to become a Naturalization, naturalized citizen of the United States. He also founded the ''Tongnip sinmun'', the first Korean newspaper written entirely in Hangul. Jaisohn was one of the organizers of the failed Kapsin Coup in 1884. He was thus convicted for treason and sought refuge in the United States where he became a citizen and earned a medical doctorate. Upon returning to Korea in 1895, Jaisohn was offered a position as a chief advisor of the Joseon government. He declined, choosing to focus on reform movements where he advocated for democracy, Korean independence and self reliance from foreign intervention, numerous civil rights and suffrage, universal suffrage. Jaisohn was forced to return to the United States in 1898, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seo (surname)
Seo is a List of Korean surnames, Korean and Japanese surname. As a Korean surname, ''Seo'' is the most frequent Romanization of Korean, romanization, but it may also be romanized as Suh, Surh, Sur, Seoh, So, Su, and Suhr. The surname most commonly represents the hanja . Seo can also be used as a single-syllable Korean given name or an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. The given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 53 hanja with the reading "''seo''" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. The Chinese surname Xu (surname 徐), Xú also uses the same character. As a Japanese surname, Seo is pronounced in two syllables ("se-o") and most frequently written as and is shared by 23,000+ individuals in Japan. Historically, the Seo clan (瀬尾) was also one of the cadet branches of the Hata clan, an immigrant clan from the kingdom of Silla. The second most common Seo is writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
