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Magnus Bøe
Magnus Bøe, also known as Kim Magnus (; born 21 July 1998) is a South Korean-born Norwegian cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Personal life Magnus was born in Busan, South Korea, to a Norwegian father and South Korean mother. The family settled in Bærum, Norway, where Magnus joined the skiing club Fossum IF. With the 2018 Winter Olympics being held in his country of birth South Korea, Magnus realized that the competition in Norway was too tough for him to gain an Olympic spot at the age of 20. He declared his allegiance for South Korea already in 2016. He competed under the South Korean surname Kim (Korean surname), Kim. He went to school in Norway, the Norwegian School of Elite Sport at Geilo. On 19 May 2018 he changed his nationality back to Norway. He took a cross-country skiing scholarship with the University of Colorado. Career His breakthrough came at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, where he won two gold medals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim (Korean Surname)
Kim () is the most common Korean name, surname in Korea. As of the 2015 South Korean census, there were 10,689,959 people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population. Although the surname is always pronounced the same, dozens of different Korean clans, family clans () use it. The clan system in Korea is unique from the surname systems of other countries. Kim is written as () in both North Korea, North and South Korea. The hanja for Kim, , can also be transliterated as () which means 'gold, metal, iron'. While Romanization of Korean, romanized as Kim by 99.3% of the population, other rare variant romanizations such as Gim, Ghim, and Kin make up the remaining 0.7%. Origin The first historical document that records the surname dates to 636 and references it as the surname of Korean King Jinheung of Silla (526–576). In the Silla kingdom (57 BCE935 CE)—which variously battled and allied with other states on the Korean peninsula and ultimately unified most of the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
