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Chŏng Sang-jin
Chŏng Sang-jin (; May 5, 1918 – June 15, 2013) was a Koryo-saram, Soviet-Korean poet, bureaucrat, academic, and military officer. He was the only ethnic Korean among 60 Soviet paratroopers that first liberated parts of Korea under Japanese rule during World War II. He was also known by his Russian name Yuri Danilovich Ten (russian: Юрий Данилович Тен) or the Korean nickname derived from Yuri, Ryul (). His name is also Cyrillization of Korean, Cyrillized as Ten San Din (). He stayed in North Korea on orders from the Soviet government and spent 13 years total there, serving in various roles in the North Korean government and at Kim Il Sung University. However, after Soviet-aligned Koreans were August Faction Incident, purged from the North Korean government, he returned to the Soviet Union. He then became a critic of North Korea and worked as a reporter, writer, and Korean reunification activist. He died in Moscow on June 15, 2013, at the age of 95. Early lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeong (surname)
Jeong is a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정", also often spelled Chung, Jung, Joung or Jong. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 2,407,601 people by this name in South Korea or 4.84% of the population. The Korean family name "정" is mainly derived from three homophonous hanja. (2,151,879), (243,803) and (11,683). The rest of the homophonous hanjas include: (139), (41), (29), (22) and (5). Latin-alphabet spelling 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 48.6% of people with this surname chose to have it spelled in Latin letters as Jung in their passports. The Revised Romanization transcription Jeong was at second place with 37.0%, while Chung came in third at 9.2%. It was the only one out of the top five surnames (the others being Kim, Park, Lee, and Choi) for which the Revised Romanization spelling was used by more than a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
