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Dong-hoon
Dong-hoon, also spelled Tong-hoon or Dong-hun, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 24 hanja with the reading "dong" and 12 hanja with the reading "hoon" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. *Chung Dong-hoon (born 1932), South Korean boxer *Choi Dong-hoon (born 1971), South Korean film director *Hoon Lee (born Tong-hoon Lee, 1973), American stage and film actor of Korean descent *Haha (entertainer) (born Ha Dong-hoon, 1979), South Korean actor *Primary (musician) (born Choi Dong-hoon, 1983), South Korean hip hop musician * Nam Dong-hoon (born 1984), South Korean modern pentathlete *Lee Dong-whun (born 1987), South Korean figure skater * Yang Tong-hun (), North Korean politician, member of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea * Han Dong-hoon (born 1973), South Korean prosecutor and 69th Minister of Justice of So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Dong-hoon
Choi Dong-hoon (; born February 24, 1971) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He ranks as one of the most consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits -- '' The Big Swindle'' attracted 2.12 million viewers, '' Tazza: The High Rollers'' at 6.84 million, '' Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard'' at 6.13 million, ''The Thieves'' at 12.9 million, and ''Assassination'' at 12.7 million. Career After graduating from the prestigious Korean Academy of Film Arts, Choi Dong-hoon first worked as an assistant director on Im Sang-soo's ''Tears'' (he subsequently appeared in acting cameos in several of Im's films). After working on the screenplay for two years, Choi made his feature film directorial debut in 2004 with '' The Big Swindle'' and single-handedly re-imagined the heist and crime thriller genre into something uniquely Korean. His follow-up '' Tazza: The High Rollers'', a gambling flick adapted fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Dong-hoon
Chung Dong-hoon (born 1932) also spelled Chung Dong-hun, is a former amateur boxer from South Korea. A native of Jeollanam-do, he graduated from Chosun University in Gwangju. He competed in the lightweight division at South Korea's April 1955 domestic Olympic national delegation qualifying tournament, and was victorious over Park Young-mu (朴英茂). The following year, he went to Melbourne, Australia to represent South Korea at the 1956 Summer Olympics in boxing, where he lost to Ján Zachara of Czechoslovakia. He went on to compete for South Korea in boxing at the 1958 Asian Games The Boxing Tournament at the 1958 Asian Games was held in Korakuen Ice Palace, Tokyo, Japan from 28 to 31 May 1958. A total of 62 boxers from 11 nations competed. The host nation dominated the competition winning six out of ten gold medals, So ... in Tokyo, Japan, where he captured the gold medal in the boxing lightweight division of the games after defeating Shinichiro Suzuki from Japan in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haha (entertainer)
Ha Dong-hoon (; born on August 20, 1979), better known by his stage name Haha (), is a South Korean singer, rapper, variety show host and member of RGP. He is best known for being in the sitcom, '' Nonstop'' and for co-hosting two popular variety programs, MBC's ''Infinite Challenge'' and SBS's '' Running Man''. He has also hosted his own show, titled "Ya Man TV" on Mnet in 2015. Life and career 2000–2008: Debut and rising popularity Haha was born on August 20, 1979, in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany and moved to Seoul, South Korea when he was an infant. His parents are both Korean, with his mother holding a doctorate in psychology, and he has an older sister, Ha Juri () who is a pianist, also with a doctorate. Haha graduated from Daejin University, where he had obtained a master's degree in Drama and Fine Arts. He later signed to Seoul Records and debuted as a singer and rapper in 2001 with hip hop group, Z-kiri. Despite excessive promotion, Z-kiri failed to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Dong-hoon
Han Dong-hoon (; born 9 April 1973) is the 69th Minister of Justice of the Republic of Korea, serving in the administration of President Yoon Suk-yeol. Han previously served as a junior anti-corruption prosecutor and played a leading role in multiple high-profile cases, including those involving Samsung executive Lee Jae-yong, former Presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak, and family members of former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk. Considered a protégé and close associate of Yoon, Han served as a principal deputy when the president held senior positions in the Korean prosecution service. Early life Han was born on April 9, 1973, in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province (South Korea), and moved to the Seocho District in Seoul, where he completed his high school education. He then attended Seoul National University's law school, where he obtained his Bachelor of Law degree. In 1995, while still in college, he passed the bar exam, and then attended the Judicial Research and Training Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary (musician)
Choi Dong-hoon (born January 31, 1983), better known by the stage name Primary, is a South Korean hip hop musician and record producer. Formerly an artist under Amoeba Culture, he established his own record label PAKTORY Company on April 22, 2020. Primary has collaborated with various artists to produce the albums ''Back Again'', ''Primary Score'', ''Daily Apartment'', ''Primary and The Messengers'', and ''2''. He has also produced albums for other Korean hip hop artists, including Supreme Team's first album ''Supremier'' and Dynamic Duo's ''Kill'', as well as several of MBLAQ's singles, including "I'm Back" and "Smokey Girl". He appeared in the MBC variety program ''Infinite Challenge'' in 2013. Career Primary became active in the South Korean hip hop scene in 2004 with collaborations with Dynamic Duo and Garion. He also gained musical experience while attending Seoul Jazz Academy. In 2006, he debuted with an album named ''Daily Apartment'' in collaboration with Beenzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoon (Korean Name)
Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written. Hanja There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant Chinese character, variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are: # (가르칠 훈 ''garuchil hun''): "to teach" # (공 훈 ''gong hun''): "merit" #* (variant of above) # (김 쐴 훈 ''gim ssoel hun''): "to dry ''Gim (food), gim''" # (불길 훈 ''bulgil hun''): "blaze" # (향풀 훈 ''hyangpul hun''): "basil" # (질나발 훈 ''jilnabal hun''): hun (instrument), a Korean wind instrument #* (variant of above) # (연기낄 훈 ''yeongikkil hun''): "smoke" # (금빛 투색할 훈 ''geumbit tusaekhal hun''): "faded gold colour" # (무리 훈 ''muri hun''): "faint" # (분홍빛 훈 ''bunhongbit hun''): "afterglow" #: "weld"Some dictionaries list this character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 small number of one-syllable names. Originally, there was no legal limitation on the length of names, but since 1993, regulations in South Korea have prohibited the registration of given names longer than five syllable blocks, in response to some parents giving their children extremely long names such as the 16-syllable Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri (). Lists of hanja for names are illustrative, not exhaustive. Names by common first and second syllables G or k (ㄱ), n (ㄴ), d (ㄷ) M (ㅁ), b (ㅂ) S (ㅅ) Vowels and semivowels (ㅇ) J (ㅈ) and ch (ㅊ) T (ㅌ) and h (ㅎ) Native Korean names ''Goyueo ireum'' are Korean given names which come from native Korean vocabulary, rather than Sino-Korean root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, which can be written with Hanja, and (, ) refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja never underwent any major reforms, they are mostly resemble to ''kyūjitai'' and traditional Chinese characters, although the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, 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, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters. In Japan, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoon Lee
Tong Hoon Lee (born July 18, 1973) is an American stage, film and television actor, known for playing Job in the Cinemax original series ''Banshee'' and the King in the Broadway revival of ''The King and I'', and voicing Hamato Yoshi/Splinter in the 2012 version of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' and Shredder in ''Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. Early life and career Lee graduated from Harvard University in 1994. He appeared in 2001 in the Broadway production of ''Urinetown''. He played many roles over the years until he was cast as Rosencrantz in a musical version of ''Hamlet''. In 2008, Lee won a Theatre World Award for Distinguished Performance in ''Yellow Face''. In television, Lee got his first role as Dr. Mao in an episode of ''Sex and the City'' in 2003. He also made guest appearances in ''Law & Order'', ''Fringe'', ''Royal Pains'', '' White Collar'', NCIS: New Orleans and other series. He also had small roles in movies such as '' Saving Face'', '' We Own th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nam Dong-hoon
Nam Dong-Hong (also ''Nam Dong-Hun'', ko, 남 동훈; born May 1, 1984, in Daegu) is a South Korean modern pentathlete. He is also a silver medalist at the 2008 Korean Open & Asian Championships in Seoul, and is currently ranked no. 123 in the world by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM). Nam qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's modern pentathlon, along with his teammate Lee Choon-Huan. During the competition, Nam struggled in the early segments, with poor scores in pistol shooting and a one-touch épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains ... fencing. He managed to attain a sixteenth-place finish in freestyle swimming, but displayed a weak performance in the riding segment, when he completed the show ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Dong-whun
Lee Dong-whun (Korean: 이동훈, born June 25, 1987, in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean figure skater. He is the 2004-2008 South Korean national champion. He trained at the Lake Arrowhead, California, while being coached by Rafael Arutyunyan, the former coach of Michelle Kwan Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002), a five-time W .... Results External links * 1987 births Living people Figure skaters at the 2007 Winter Universiade Figure skaters from Seoul South Korean male single skaters Figure skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Figure skaters at the 2007 Asian Winter Games {{Korea-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Tong-hun
Yang may refer to: * Yang, in yin and yang, one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy * Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902 * YANG, a data modeling language for the NETCONF network configuration protocol Geography * Yang County, in Shaanxi, China * Yangzhou (ancient China), also known as Yang Prefecture * Yang (state), ancient Chinese state * Yang, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province * Yang River (other) People * Yang, one of the names for the Karen people in the Thai language *Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the constitutional monarch of Malaysia * Yang (surname), Chinese surname * Yang (Korean surname) Fictional characters * Cristina Yang, on the TV show ''Grey's Anatomy'' * Yang, from the show '' Yin Yang Yo!'' * Yang, Experiment 502 in '' Lilo and Stitch: The Series'' * Yang Fang Leiden, from ''Final Fantasy IV'' * Yang Lee, in the ''Street Fighter III'' series of videogames * Mr. Yang, the Yin Yang serial killer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
