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Tae-won
Tae-won is a Korean masculine given name. The meaning of the name differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable. There are 20 hanja with the reading " tae" and 35 hanja with the reading " won" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. People with this name include: *Chey Tae-won (born 1960), South Korean businessman, chairman of SK Group *Kim Tae-won (born 1965), South Korean guitarist *Lee Tae-Won (born 1986), South Korean baseball player *Noh Tae-won (born 1957), South Korean physicist * Park Tae-Won (born 1977), South Korean football player See also *List of Korean given names This is a list of Korean given names by type. Most Korean given names consist of two Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja. There are also names with more than two syllables, often from native Korean vocabulary. Finally, there are a sm ... References {{given name Korean masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chey Tae-won
Chey Tae-won (born December 3, 1960), also known by his English name Anthony Chey, is a South Korean business magnate. He is the chairman of SK Group, Korea's second largest conglomerate that mainly engages in energy, chemicals, telecommunications, semiconductor, and biopharmaceutical businesses. SK Group has 186 subsidiaries including SK Telecom, SK Hynix, and SK Innovation through SK Inc.(holding company). Chey is well known for the group's SK Hynix merger deal, which eventually becomes the world fourth largest chipmaker behind Samsung Electronics, Intel, and TSMC. As of June 2021, he is the 14th richest person in South Korea with an estimated net worth of US$3.6 billion. The bulk of his fortune comes from SK Inc., holding company of SK Group. Chey has served as Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry(KCCI) since March 2021 and has been representing the Korean business community. Early life and education Chey was born on December 3, 1960, in Suwon, Gye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Tae-won
Kim Tae-won (, April 12, 1965) is a Korean guitarist with over 30 years of experience in Korean music industry, currently leading one of the most successful rock bands in Korean music history, Boohwal. His life was dramatised in a four episode KBS2 short series '' Rock, Rock, Rock'', where Kim was portrayed by musician-actor No Minwoo. Adolescence He was a talented billiards player, having achieved the level of 300 points as a highschool senior. His guitar skill was even more outstanding: He is said to have been able to play proficiently the guitar riff in Led Zeppelin’s “ Babe I'm Gonna Leave You” in middle school and the guitar solo of (towards the end of the song) Deep Purple's " Highway Star" at a much faster speed than normal. He slowly rose to fame among fellow students in the Seodaemun area, his home town. He was called “the best guitarist everybody knows”. Career At 20, he started a rock band called "The End" with two colleagues, one of whom was Kim Jong-Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noh Tae-won
Noh Tae-won is a South Korean physicist and director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES) in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) at Seoul National University (SNU). He has published more 400 papers and been cited 15,000 times. He is a member of the Materials Research Society, Korean Optical Society, Korean Crystallographic Society, and Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies and been on several editorial boards for journals. In 2017, he became president of the Korean Dielectrics Society. Education Noh graduated from Kyunggi High School in Seoul, South Korea, in 1976 and received his B.Sc. (1982) in Physics from Seoul National University. Supervised by Dr. James R. Gaine, he obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University in 1984 and 1986, respectively. Career Noh conducted postdoctoral research in Dr. Albert John Sievers' group at Cornell University until 1989. During that period, he studied the optical properties of high-Tc superco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tae (Korean Name)
Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element used in many two-syllable Korean given names. As a family name, it is written with a hanja meaning "great", while in given names, it may have a variety of meanings depending on the hanja used to write it. As a family name As a rare Korean family name, Tae is written with only one hanja, meaning "great" (). They are a noble clan directly descended from the royal family of the Balhae dynasty. The clan ancestor is Dae Jung-sang, the father of the founder of Balhae, Dae Jo-young. The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,165 people with the family name Tae. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 28.5% of people with that surname spelled it in Latin letters as Tai in their passports, vs. 57.1% as Tae. People with this surname trace their origins to several ''bon-gwan'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Won (Korean Given Name)
Won 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 46 Hanja with the reading "''won''" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. In given names Given names formed with the syllable "Won" include: First syllable ;Masculine *Won-ho * Won-hyo *Won-il *Won-jae * Won-jong * Won-joong * Won-jun * Won-kyu * Won-seh * Won-seok * Won-sung * Won-tae * Won-woo ;Unisex * Won-hee * Won-jin * Won-ju * Won-jung * Won-kyo * Won-young ;Feminine * Won-kyung * Won-sook Second syllable ;Masculine * Dae-won *Do-won *Dong-won * Gi-won * Hyung-won *Jae-won *Jong-won * Joong-won * Kyu-won * Sang-won * Se-won * Soo-won * Seung-won * Sang-won * Seong-won * Tae-won ;Unisex *Hae-won * Hee-won * Hyo-won * Ji-won * Joo-won *Jung-won * Kyung-won * Rae-won * Ree-won * Seo-won * Si-won * Yo-won * Young-won ;Feminine *Chae-won *Hye-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Tae-Won
Lee Tae-Won ( Hangul: 이태원, Hanja: 李泰元) (born March 17, 1986 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean former catcher for the NC Dinos in the KBO League. He bats and throws right-handed. Amateur career Lee played baseball at Choongam High School in Seoul from 2002 to 2004. Prior to graduation, he was selected in the 2nd round (47th overall) of the 2005 KBO draft by the LG Twins, which was the second-highest pick as a high school catcher. Although Lee was willing to play in the KBO without going to college, his mother opposed his decision strongly, and that conflict led him to give up baseball temporarily. After sitting out the whole 2005 season, Lee eventually came back in 2006, deciding to play college baseball at Dongguk University. During his four-year college years, Lee was recognized as one of the best amateur catchers nationwide, becoming a fixture in the team's starting lineup in his freshman year and helping his team to win the national championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Tae-won (footballer)
is a South Korean professional footballer who last played for the Singaporean club Singapore Armed Forces. Club career South Korea He began his football career with South Korean club Chunnam Dragons in 1999. He played only 1 league game with Chunnam. Singapore In 2001, Park moved to S. League in Singapore, and joined Jurong FC. He finished as Jurong's top goalscorer with 24 goals in his debut season. Throughout a three-year spell at Jurong, he scored a total of 44 goals. Park joined Balestier Khalsa in 2004, but he moved to Woodlands Wellington a year later. At Woodlands, he scored 40 goals in four seasons, and in 2008, became only the eighth player to score 100 goals in the S.League. From 2009, he joined Singapore Armed Forces. Honours Club Woodlands Wellington *League Cup In several sports, most prominently association football, a league cup or secondary cup generally signifies a cup competition for which entry is restricted only to teams in a particular league. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Korean Given Names
This is a list of Korean given names by type. Most Korean given names consist of two Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja. There are also names with more than two syllables, often from native Korean vocabulary. Finally, there are a small number of one-syllable names. Originally, there was no legal limitation on the length of names, but since 1993, regulations in South Korea have prohibited the registration of given names longer than five syllable blocks, in response to some parents giving their children extremely long names such as the 16-syllable Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri (). Lists of hanja for names are illustrative, not exhaustive. Names by common first and second syllables G or k (ㄱ), n (ㄴ), d (ㄷ) M (ㅁ), b (ㅂ) S (ㅅ) Vowels and semivowels (ㅇ) J (ㅈ) and ch (ㅊ) T (ㅌ) and h (ㅎ) Native Korean names ''Goyueo ireum'' are Korean given names which come from native Korean vocabulary, rather than Sino-Korean root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic of Korea) comprising its southern half. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. The peninsula is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea). During the first half of the 1st millennium, Korea was divided between three states, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, together known as the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In the second half of the 1st millennium, Silla defeated and conquered Baekje and Goguryeo, leading to the " Unified Silla" period. Meanwhile, Balhae formed in the north, superseding former Goguryeo. Unified Silla eventually collapsed into three separate states due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja
Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) 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 never underwent any major reforms, they are mostly resemble to '' kyūjitai'' and traditional Chinese characters, although the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, 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, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters. In J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Masculine Given Names
Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language **See also: North–South differences in the Korean language Places * Korean Peninsula, a peninsula in East Asia * Korea, a region of East Asia * North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea * South Korea, the Republic of Korea Other uses *Korean Air, flag carrier and the largest airline of South Korea See also *Korean War, 1950–1953 war between North Korea and South Korea *Names of Korea, various country names used in international contexts *History of Korea The Lower Paleolithic era in the Korean Peninsula and 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 earlies ..., the history of Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
