Kyung-chul, also spelled Kyong-chol or Gyeong-cheol, is a Korean masculine 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 11 hanja with the reading "
chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
People with this name include:
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Cho Gyeong-chul
Cho Gyeong-chul ( ko, 조경철, April 4, 1929 – March 6, 2010) was a South Korean astronomer who worked at NASA and the US Naval Observatory.
Biography
He was born in Sonchon, Pyongannam-do. He finished his middle and high school courses at ...
(1929–2010), South Korean astronomer
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Park Gyeong-cheol
Park Gyeong-cheol (born January 23, 1969) is a South Korean sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropol ...
(born 1969), South Korean sprint canoer
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Ri Kyong-chol
Ri Kyong-chol (born 8 March 1979) is a North Korean long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. His personal best time is 2:11:36 hours, achieved at the 2005 Pyongyang Marathon.
He finished 32nd at the 2005 World Championships. He al ...
(born 1979), North Korean long-distance runner
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Lee Kyung-chul
Lee Kyung-Chul (Hangul: 이경철) is a South Korean archer who won the 1995 World Archery Championships in Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) ...
, South Korean archer
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Cho Kyong-chol
Cho or CHO may refer to:
People
* Chief Happiness Officer
Surnames
* Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname
* Zhuo (), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname
* Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese sur ...
, North Korean Supreme People's Assembly member for Sungrisan; see
2014 North Korean parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 9 March 2014 to elect the members of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly.
Background
This was the first election since the assumption of Kim Jong-un as leader of the country as the leader of th ...
Fictional characters with this name include:
* Jang Kyung-chul, in 2010 South Korean film ''
I Saw the Devil''
See also
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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
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Korean masculine given names