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Kyung-sook
Kyung-sook, also spelled Gyeong-suk, Kyung-suk or Kyong-suk, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 54 hanja with the reading " kyung" and 13 hanja with the reading "sook" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Kyung-sook was the seventh-most popular name for baby girls in South Korea in 1950, rising to fifth place by 1960. People with this name include: * Pak Kyong-suk (1921–2020), North Korean politician *Jeong Gyeong-suk (born ), South Korean flight attendant, one of the unreturned victims of the 1969 Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking * Mun Gyeong-suk (born 1945), South Korean volleyball player * Shin Kyung-sook (born 1963), South Korean writer * Kim Gyeong-suk (born 1967), South Korean cyclist * Ri Kyong Suk (North Korean singer) (born 1970), North Korean singer * Won Gyeong-suk (born 1975), South Korean sport shooter * Jin Gyeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Kyung-sook
Kyung-sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook (, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for '' Please Look After Mom''. Life Kyung-sook Shin was born in 1963 in a village near Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province in southern South Korea. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of six. At sixteen she moved to Seoul, where her older brother lived. She worked in an electronics plant while attending night school. She made her literary debut in 1985 with the novella ''Winter’s Fable'' after graduating from the Seoul Institute of the Arts as a creative writing major. Along with Kim Insuk and Gong Ji-young, Kyung-sook Shin is one of the group of female writers known as the 386 Generation. Career Kyung-sook Shin won the Munye Joongang New Author Prize for her novella ''Winter Fables''. She has won a wide variety of literary prizes, including the Today’s Young Artist Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mun Gyeong-suk
Moon Kyung-sook (born 5 February 1945) is a South Korean volleyball player. She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol .... References 1945 births Living people South Korean women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for South Korea Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Volleyball players at the 1966 Asian Games Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Asian Games silver medalists in volleyball {{SouthKorea-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Gyeong-suk
Kim Kyung-sook (born 1 August 1967) is a South Korean former cyclist. She competed in the women's individual road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She also won the gold medal at the 1986 Asian Games The 1986 Asian Games (), officially known as the 10th Asian Games and the X Asiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1986 (), were held from 20 September to 5 October 1986, in Seoul, South Korea. The venues and facilities of the 10th Asiad were the sa ... in Seoul. References 1967 births Living people South Korean female cyclists Olympic cyclists for South Korea Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games gold medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games cyclists for South Korea 20th-century South Korean sportswomen 21st-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Gyeong-suk
Jin Gyeong-suk (; 24 June 1980Dec 31, 2004), also known as Jin Kyung-sook, was a North Korean woman who, after successfully defecting to South Korea in 2002, was arrested in China two years later for conducting espionage and forcefully deported back to North Korea, where she was tortured and murdered. /www.amnesty.org/en/stay-informed/enewsletters/wire/february-2010-march-2010-pdf-24-pages-167-mb Amnesty International: Newsletter ''THE WIRE'' Issue January/February 2010, Women Shaping Their Own Lives, P. 20. Retrieved 15 July 2012. Kidnapping In August 2004, Jin, who had acquired South Korean citizenship after her arrival there two years earlier, and her husband, Mun Jeong-hun, traveled on their honeymoon to the Jilin Province in northern China. Commissioned by a Japanese film production company, the couple had planned to make a video about the involvement of North Korea in the drug trade. In this context, they met a supposed middle-man on the Chinese side of the Tumen River, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyung
Kyung, also spelled Kyoung, Gyeong, Kyeong, Keyoung, or Kyong, is an uncommon Korean family name, as well as a single-syllable Korean given name and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As a family name The 2000 South Korean Census found 15,784 people with the family name Kyung. It may be written with either of two different hanja. Those with the name meaning "scenery" () may belong to one of two different ''bon-gwan'': Haeju, South Hwanghae, in what is today North Korea, and Taein (泰仁). There is only one ''bon-gwan'' for the other Kyung surname, meaning "celebration" (): Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, in what is today South Korea. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 69.2% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Kyung in their passports, while another 19.2% spelled it as Kyoung. The Revised Romanisation spelling Gyeong came in third place at 7.6 ... [...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] |
Pak Kyong-suk
Pak Kyong-suk (, 1921 – 31 August 2020) was a North Korean politician. She was a seamstress in Kim Il Sung's guerrilla forces during the 1930s. After the liberation of Korea, she held posts in the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Democratic Women's League, as well as being a delegate to the Supreme People's Assembly. Career Pak Kyong-suk was born in Eastern Manchuria in 1921. In the 1930s during the anti-Japanese struggle, she was a member of Kim Il Sung's sewing unit. Kim Il Sung remembers her as one of the best radio operators in his autobiography ''With the Century'', writing: Her political career began in c. 1948 when she became the director of the secret documents department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). In 1954 she became a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Women's League. In July 1956, she became a deputy department director in the WPK South Hamhyong provincial committee. In October 1959 she became the chairwoman of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Air Lines YS-11 Hijacking
The 1969 Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking occurred on 11 December 1969. The aircraft, a Korean Air Lines NAMC YS-11 flying a domestic route from Gangneung Airbase in Gangneung, Gangwon, South Korea to Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, was hijacked at 12:25 PM by North Korean agent Cho Ch'ang-hŭi (). It was carrying four crewmembers and 46 passengers (excluding Cho); 39 of the passengers were returned two months later, but the crew and seven passengers remained in North Korea. The incident is seen in the South as an example of the North Korean abductions of South Koreans. Incident According to passenger testimony, one of the passengers rose from his seat 10 minutes after takeoff and entered the cockpit, following which the aircraft changed direction and was joined by three Korean People's Air Force fighter jets. The aircraft landed at Sǒndǒk Airfield near Wonsan at 1:18 pm. North Korean soldiers boarded the aircraft afterwards, blindfolded the passengers, and instructed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ri Kyong Suk (North Korean Singer)
Ri Kyong Suk (; born January 1, 1970) is a North Korean singer. Biography Ri Kyong Suk was born to an engineer father and a train driver mother as the eldest of three siblings on 1 January 1970, in the Pyongchon District of Pyongyang. At the age of 7, she began singing in opera productions, where her talent was quickly recognized. She is currently living in the Moranbong District of Pyongyang with her husband Kim Yong Il, a member of the Ministry of Culture and bass guitar player in the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble. She has a son, Kim Nam Jun and a daughter, Kim Ye Eun. Career Ri's career started in the late 1970s as a singer and actor in opera productions. At age 7, she played a role in the revolutionary opera '' The Song of Mount Kumgang'', and in middle school, she played a role in the famous revolutionary opera titled '' The Sea of Blood''. Around 1985, she was selected by a director from the Korean Film Studio to act in the film ''Female Teacher''. She joined the newl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Won Gyeong-suk
Won Gyeong-suk (born 28 March 1976) is a South Korean sports shooter. She competed in the women's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References 1976 births Living people South Korean female sport shooters Olympic shooters for South Korea Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{SouthKorea-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
