Kyung-sook, also spelled Gyeong-suk, Kyung-suk or Kyong-suk, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the
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.
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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
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 t ...
in 1950, rising to fifth place by 1960.
People with this name include:
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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
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Mun Gyeong-suk (born 1945), South Korean volleyball player
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Shin Kyung-sook (born 1963), South Korean writer
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Kim Gyeong-suk (born 1967), South Korean cyclist
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Ri Kyong Suk (North Korean singer) (born 1970), North Korean singer
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Won Gyeong-suk (born 1975), South Korean sport shooter
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Jin Gyeong-suk (1980–2005), North Korean defector
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Hong Kyung-suk (born 1984), South Korean football player
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Park Kyung-suk (taekwondo), South Korean taekwondo athlete
See also
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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-m ...
References
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Korean feminine given names
Feminine given names