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Tae-yong
Tae-yong is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading " tae" and 24 hanja with the reading " yong" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Additionally, there is one character with the reading "ryong" which may also be written and pronounced "yong" in South Korea. Notable people with this name include: * Cho Tae-yong (born 1956), South Korean diplomat *Kim Tae-yong (born 1969), South Korean film director * Kim Taeyong (writer) (born 1974), South Korean writer * Kim Tae-yong (director, born 1987), South Korean film director * Shin Tae-yong (born 1970), South Korean footballer *Taeyong (born Lee Tae-yong, 1995), South Korean singer, member of boy bands NCT and SuperM See also *List of Korean given names This is a list of Korean given names, in Hangul alphabetical order. See for an explanation.anandhu List * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Tae-yong
Shin Tae-yong (; born 11 October 1970) is a South Korean football manager and former professional player who most recently managed the Indonesian national team from 2020 until 2025. He is the first man to win the AFC Champions League (Asian Club Championship) as both player and manager, having won the 1995 tournament as a player and the 2010 tournament as a manager with Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. Club career After graduating from Yeungnam University, Shin spent 12 seasons playing for Ilhwa Chunma. He won the K League Young Player of the Year Award in 1992, the first year of his professional career. He was a key player for Ilhwa Chunma when they won the K League for three consecutive years from 1993 to 1995. Especially in 1995, he became the Most Valuable Player of the K League, and also won the Asian Club Championship in the end of the year. Afterwards, Ilhwa Chunma faltered for a while, but they succeeded in conquering the league again under Shin's contribution. They once agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Tae-yong
Kim Tae-yong (; born December 9, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. After his feature directorial debut ''Memento Mori'' (1999), he helmed the critically-acclaimed '' Family Ties'' (2006), and the English-language remake '' Late Autumn'' (2010). Career Tae-yong graduated from Yonsei University in 1994 with a major in politics and diplomacy, and first became involved in Korean cinema through a friend, who was an assistant director of an independent production. Inspired by the vibrant atmosphere that came with working on a set, Kim then enrolled at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) in 1996. He met and became friends with fellow director Min Kyu-dong while at KAFA, where he and his classmates would work on short films as a part of the crew and doing lighting. In 1999, Kim and Min received the offer to direct ''Memento Mori'' as a sequel to the horror film ''Whispering Corridors'' (1998), and so began Kim’s foray into commercial cinema. In some ways, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Tae-yong (director, Born 1987)
Kim Tae-yong (; born March 20, 1987) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim got into filmmaking before he turned 20 years old, after watching and inspired by the film '' The Son'' by directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. His directorial feature debut '' Set Me Free'' (2014), critically acclaimed for its stable scriptwriting and direction, is based on his own story. Filmography *''As Children'' (short film, 2005) - director *''Twenty's Wind'' (short film, 2005) - director *''You Can Count on Me'' (short film, 2006) - director *''Solongos'' (short film, 2007) - director *''Exhausted'' (2009) - assistant director *''Frozen Land'' (short film, 2010) - director, screenwriter *''Social Service Agent'' (short film, 2011) - director, screenwriter, editor *''Night Market'' (short film, 2012) - director *''Night Bugs'' (short film, 2012) - director, screenwriter *''Spring Fever'' (short film, 2013) - director, screenwriter *''One Summer Night'' (short film, 2014) - d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Tae-yong
Cho Tae-yong (; born 29 August 1956) is a South Korean career diplomat and politician with over three decades of experience who served as South Korea's National Security Advisor from March to December 2023. On January 16, 2024, he was appointed Director of the National Intelligence Service of South Korea. Cho has extensive experience in a range of high-level diplomatic assignments dealing with the United States and North Korea. In November 2016, he represented South Korea in talks with Michael Flynn and other members of then-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy team on North Korea. He and then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken held five rounds of U.S.-South Korea strategic consultations on North Korea between 2015 and 2017. As South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister between 2014 and 2015, he represented South Korea in regular U.S.-South Korea-Japan trilateral talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taeyong
Lee Tae-yong (; born July 1, 1995), known mononymously as Taeyong (stylized in all caps), is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is a member and leader of South Korean boy band NCT under SM Entertainment, having debuted in the group's first sub-unit, NCT U, in 2016 and becoming the leader of its second sub-unit, NCT 127, later that year. In 2019, he debuted as a member of the South Korean supergroup SuperM, a joint project under SM Entertainment and Capitol Records. As a songwriter, Taeyong has participated in writing over 40 songs in four languages, released mostly by NCT's various units and himself as a soloist. He made his official solo debut in June 2023 with his EP ''Shalala'', making him the first soloist from NCT. Life and career Early life Lee Taeyong was born on July 1, 1995, in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from the School of Performing Arts Seoul. 2012–2016: Pre-debut activities In 2012, Taeyong was scouted on the street by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tae (Korean Given Name)
Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element used in many two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning of this given name may have a variety of meanings depending on the hanja used to write it. As a given name In given names, the meaning of "Tae" depends on the hanja used to write it. There are 20 hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are: # (클 태 ''keul tae''): "great" # (클 태 ''keul tae''): "exalted" # (게으를 태 ''ge-eureul tae''): "idle" # (거의 태 ''geo-ui tae'', 위태할 태 ''witaehal tae''): "almost", "dangerous" # (모습 태 ''moseup tae''): "form", "shape" # (일 태 ''il tae''): "to wash" # (바꿀 태 ''bakkul tae''): "to change" # (별 태 ''byeol tae''): "platform" # (아이 밸 태 ''ai bael tae''): "unborn child" # (나라 이름 태 ''nara ireum tae''): Tai, an ancient city-state in modern Shaanxi, China # (볼기 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yong (Korean Name)
Yong (Korean Hangul: , Korean Hanja: ) is a family name used in Korea, as well as a character in some Korean given names. It may also mean sun in some cases. As a family name, it may also be spelled Ryong in Korea. It is of Sino-Korean origin. As a family name Most hanja with the reading Yong are pronounced that way in all dialects of Korean. However, the character used to write the family name (, meaning "dragon"), is also read as Ryong and spelled as such in hangul (룡). This is the standard reading in North Korea and among Koreans in China. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on a sample of year 2007 applications for South Korean passports, it was found that 97% of people with this surname chose to have it spelled it in Latin letters as Yong, while 3% chose to spell it Young, and none spelled it Ryong. Yong is one of the 100 most common given names in China The 2000 South Korean Census found 14,067 people and 4,320 households with this family name ... [...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 Taeyong (writer)
Kim Taeyong (; born 1974) is a South Korean writer. Life Kim Taeyong was born in Seoul in 1974. He graduated in creative writing from Soongsil University. He began his literary career when his short story “''Oreunjjogeseo sebeonjjae jip''” (오른쪽에서 세 번째 집 The Third House from the Right) was published in the 2005 spring issue of the quarterly literary magazine ''Segyeuimunhak''. He has won the '' Hankook Ilbo Literary Award'', ''Moonji Literary Award'', ''KimHyun Literary Award.'' Writing Many of Kim Taeyong's stories are about writing itself. In the title story of his second collection “''Poju iyagi''” (포주 이야기 A Pimp's Story), the pimp, who is the narrator, starts writing a will with the sentence ‘I was a pimp’, and struggles to write the next sentence. The incapable pimp is the alter ego An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate Self (psychology), self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true or ... [...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] |
