Min-chul, also spelled Min-chol, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the

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, ...

used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading " min" and 11 hanja with the reading " chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. People with this name include: *

Kang Min-chol Kang Min-chol (born 1948) is a North Korean politician. He is Minister of Mining Industries in the Cabinet of North Korea, and an alternate member of the politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). He was a delegate ...

(born 1948), North Korean politician *

Jung Min-cheul Jung Min-cheul (Hangul: 정민철; born March 28, 1972) is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher and coach, who is currently the General Manager of the Hanwha Eagles. He played 16 seasons in the KBO League for the Binggrae/Hanwh ...

(born 1972), South Korean baseball pitcher *

Kang Minchul Kang Minchul (born 16 March 1973) is a South Korean yongmudo practitioner (Grand Master) and a professor in the Department of Oriental Martial Arts at Yong In University. He is the manager of the Korean Yongmudo Association (KYA). References ...

(born 1973), South Korean yongmudo practitioner * Park Min-chul (born 1974), South Korean handball player * Choi Min-chul (born 1976), South Korean actor * Back Min-chul (born 1977), South Korean football goalkeeper *

Kim Min-chul Kim Min-Chul ( ko, 김 민철; born April 4, 1983) is an amateur South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's welterweight category. He defeated Uzbekistan's Ravshan Ruzikulov for a gold medal in the 66 kg division at the 200 ...

(born 1983), South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler *

Son Min-chol Son Min-chol ( ko, 손민철/孫民哲; born 27 October 1986) is a former professional footballer. Born in Japan, he represented North Korea at the youth level internationally. Career Japan He played for F.C. Ryūkyū in the Japan Football Le ...

(born 1986), North Korean football centre back (Japan Football League) * Jang Min-chul (born 1991), South Korean professional StarCraft player *

An Min-chol An Min-chol is a North Korean politician and bureaucrat. He was a delegate to the 10th and 11th sessions of the Supreme People's Assembly. In addition, he serves at the general manager of the Sŏwŏn Cooperative Farm Committee in Pŏng-gun, Sou ...

, North Korean politician *

Kang Min-chul The Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983, was an assassination attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). The attempt was orchestrated by North Korea. Although Chun surviv ...

(c.1955 – 18 May 2008), North Korean soldier and one of the three perpetrators of the 1983 Rangoon bombing. He was sentenced to

life imprisonment Life imprisonment is any sentence (law), sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed te ...

by a court in

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

and died in prison while serving his sentence

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{{reflist Korean masculine given names Masculine given names

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