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Jung-ho
Jeong-ho, Jung-ho, or Jong-ho is a Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 75 hanja with the reading " jeong" and 49 hanja with the reading " ho" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. Jung-ho was a popular name for baby boys in South Korea in the mid-20th century, coming in fifth place in 1950, rising to fourth place in 1960, and falling to seventh place in 1970. People with this name include: * Kim Jeong-ho (1804–1866?), Joseon Dynasty geographer and cartographer * Jung-Ho Pak (born 1962), American symphony conductor * Hong Jeong-ho (born 1974), South Korean handball player * Lee Jung-ho (born 1981), South Korean football player * Kang Jung-ho (born 1987), South Korean baseball player * Hong Jeong-ho (born 1989), South Korean football player See also *List of Korean given names This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kang Jung-ho
Jung-ho Kang (; ; 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. Early life While attending Gwangju Jeil High School,Keh, Andrew"School Spirit May Be Metaphysical for South Korean Baseball Players,"''New York Times'' (October 2, 2015). Kang's main position was catcher. In , Kang was selected for the South Korean national under-18 team as a third baseman and was part of the team that won bronze at the World Junior Baseball Championship. In , Kang helped Gwangju Jeil High School win the Golden Lion Flag Championship, winning the Outstanding Pitcher Award and the RBI title. Professional career Hyundai Unicorns Kang was drafted by the Hyundai Unicorns in the second round of the 2006 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) First-Year Player Draft. Kang struggled to make an impact in his first two seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jung (Korean Given Name)
Jeong, also spelled Jung or Jong, Chung, Chong is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 84 hanja with the reading "''Jeong''" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. People People with the single-syllable given name Jeong include: * Jeong of Balhae (died 812), seventh King of Balhae * Yi Chong (1541–1622), Joseon Dynasty painter *Heo Jeong (1896–1988), Korean male independence activist and South Korean politician * Kang Jeong (born 1971), South Korean poet * Suh Jung (born 1972), South Korean actress * Jang Jeong (born 1980), South Korean golfer * Choi Jeong (born 1987), South Korean baseball player *Kim Jong (table tennis) (born 1989), North Korean table tennis player * Choi Jeong (Go player) (born 1996), South Korean go player As a name element According to South Korean government data, many names contai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Jung-ho
Lee Won-young (; born 13 March 1981) is a South Korea football (soccer), footballer who plays for K4 League side Goyang KH. In 2013, he was renamed from Lee Jung-ho to Lee Won-young. He has played for formerly Pohang Steelers, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Jeju United, Saudi Arabia side Al-Ittifaq and Thai team Pattaya United F.C. (2008), Pattaya United. Club career statistics (Busan IPark) ''As of 5 November 2016'' External links * * Lee Jung-Ho statistics in Saudi Arabia 1981 births Living people Men's association football defenders South Korean men's footballers South Korean expatriate men's footballers Pohang Steelers players Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players Jeju SK FC players Busan IPark players Al-Ettifaq FC players Pattaya United F.C. (2008) players, Lee Won-young K League 1 players South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Thailand Expatriate men's footballers in Thail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho (Korean Name)
Ho is a Korean family name, a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Family name As a family name, Ho may be written with three different hanja. Those with the family name meaning "retinue" () may belong to one of four different ''bon-gwan'': * Naju, Jeollanam-do *Boan, Buan, Jeollabuk-do *Baekcheon, Sacheon, Gyeongsangnam-do *Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do The 2000 South Korean census found 6,106 people with these family names. People with this family name include: * Ho In-soo, South Korean Catholic priest * Jessica Ho (stage name Jessi, born 1988), Korean American rapper, singer, television presenter * Ho Jun-seok (born 1969), South Korean politician Given name There are 49 hanja with the reading "ho" (with variant forms of three of them) on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; common ones are listed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Korean Given Names
This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See for an explanation.anandhu List * Ga-young () * Ga-eun () * Ga-eul () * Ga-in () * Kang-min () *Gun () * Kun-woo () * Kyung-gu () * Kyung-lim () * Kyung-mo () * Kyung-min () * Kyung-seok () * Kyung-sun () * Kyung-soo () * Kyung-sook () * Kyung-ah () * Kyung-ok () * Kyung-wan () * Kyung-won () * Kyung-ja () * Kyung-jae () * Kyung-ju () * Kyung-joon () * Kyung-chul () * Kyung-tae () * Kyung-taek () * Kyung-ho () * Kyung-hwa () * Kyung-hwan () * Kyung-hee () * Go-eun () * Kwang () * Kwang-min () * Kwang-seok () * Kwang-seon () * Kwang-su () * Kwang-sik () * Kwang-jo () * Kwang-hyok () * Kwang-hyun () * Kwang-ho () * Kwang-hwan () * Kwang-hoon () * Kwang-hee () * Gyuri () * Kyu-won () * Kyu-chul () * Geun () * Kum-song () * Ki-nam () * Ki-moon () * Ki-young () * Ki-woo () * Gi-ung () * Ki-jung () * Ki-tae () * Ki-ha () * Na-rae () * Nari () * Na-moo () * Na-young () * Nak-won () * Nam-kyu () * Nam-gi () * Nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja
Hanja (; ), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period. () refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be written with Hanja, and () refers to Classical Chinese writing, although ''Hanja'' is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja characters have never undergone any major reforms, they more closely resemble traditional Chinese and kyūjitai, traditional Japanese characters, although the stroke orders for certain characters are slightly different. Such examples are the characters and , as well as and . Only a small number of Hanja characters were modified or are unique to Korean, with the rest being identical to the traditional Chinese characters. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore have been simplified Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North Korea, South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has Demographics of South Korea, a population of about 52 million, of which half live in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, the List of largest cities, ninth most populous metropolitan area in the world; other major cities include Busan, Daegu, and Incheon. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Gojoseon, Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early seventh century BC. From the mid first century BC, various Polity, polities consolidated into the rival Three Kingdoms of Korea, kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Jeong-ho
Kim Jeong-ho (; 1804–1866?) was a Korean geographer and cartographer. His art name was Gosanja (). He was born in Hwanghaedo. It is believed that he walked the entire length and breadth of the Korean peninsula, through mountain and valley, in order to research and compile his ''magnum opus'', the '' Daedongyeojido,'' () a map of Korea that was published in 1861, from which a single-sheet version, the '' Daedongyeojijeondo'' (대동여지전도 大東與地全圖), was subsequently made. The events surrounding Kim's death are obscure. Following the publication of a later version of the ''Daedongyeojido'' in 1866, Kim is not heard from again. The document from the Governor-General of Korea asserts that the Korean regent Daewongun, upon viewing the later version of Kim's great map, became incensed by its inclusion of sensitive details critical to national defense. According to the document, the Daewongun had Kim arrested and jailed, and the maps destroyed. However, the origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jung-Ho Pak
Jung-Ho Pak (born February 4, 1962, in Burlingame, California) is an American symphony conductor. He was Artistic Director of the San Diego Symphony and of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, of which he is now Conductor Emeritus. He was Music Director of the Diablo Ballet and the NEXT Generation Chamber Orchestra. He was the artistic director of the now-defunct Orchestra Nova San Diego. Pak has guest conducted internationally. He was the Director of the Cape Symphony, and is a former musical director of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and the director of orchestras at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. In May 2023, he announced that he was stepping down as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Cape Symphony at the end of the summer. Education Pak began studying the piano at age 6. Three years later, he was awarded a scholarship to the San Francisco Conservatory and enrolled in a college music theory class. He began studying clarinet at age 11, and played in multiple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Jeong-ho (handballer)
Hong Jeong-Ho (born May 6, 1974) is a retired South Korean team handball player, Olympic and World champion. She is now based in Seoul and is involved in youth handball and also an expert commentator on TV. International career She received gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, playing for the Korean national team."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 23, 2008) She received a silver medal at the in |
Hong Jeong-ho
Hong Jeong-ho (, or ; born 12 August 1989) is a South Korean footballer who plays for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors as a centre-back. His brother Hong Jeong-nam is also a footballer. Club career On 1 September 2013, Hong Jeong-ho transferred to FC Augsburg from Jeju United for a fee estimated around €2 million. He signed a four-year contract which will keep him at the club until 2017. Implication in 2011 match-fixing scandal During the 2011 K-League season, Hong was accused of being involved in the 2011 South Korean football betting scandal and was held out of a league match during the investigation. Although the investigation discovered that gangs had deposited 4 million won unsolicited into Hong's bank account, he had later returned the funds and was cleared of wrongdoing. Subsequently, Hong was declared eligible for league and national team matches. Career statistics International goals :''Scores and results list South Korea's goal tally first, score column indicates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Masculine Given Names
Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, people from the Korean peninsula or of Korean descent * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Korean **Korean dialects **See also: North–South differences in the Korean language Places * Korean Peninsula, a peninsula in East Asia **North Korea **South Korea Other uses *Korean Air, flag carrier and the largest airline of South Korea See also *Korean War, 1950-present war between North Korea and South Korea; ceasefire since 1953 *Names of Korea, various country names used in international contexts *History of Korea The Lower Paleolithic era on the Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825. The earl ..., the history of Korea up to 1945 * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
