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Jong-il
Jong-il, also spelled Jong-yil, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 19 hanja with the reading "jong" and ten hanja with the reading " il" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. People with this name include: * Ra Jong-yil (born 1940), South Korean diplomat *Kim Jong-il (athlete) (born 1962), South Korean long jumper *Park Jong-il (born 1972), South Korean ski mountaineer * Choi Jong-il, South Korean businessman, CEO of Iconix Entertainment See also *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 {{given name Korean masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Jong-il
Park Jong-il ( ko, 박종일; born 1972) is a South Korean ski mountaineer and mountaineer. Selected results * 2009: ** 3rd: Asian Championship, relay (mixed teams), together with Gwak Mi-hee ** 6th: Asian Championship, vertical race * 2010 ** 2nd: Gangwong Provincial Governor Cup of Ski Mountaineering, individual * 2012: ** 2nd: Asian Championship, individual * 2013 ** 2nd: Asian Cup Ski Mountaineering Competition, individual * 2015 ** 3rd: Asian Cup & Gangwon Provincial Governor Cup & Korea Championship, individual ISMF. Mountaineering * 2006 |
Kim Jong-il (athlete)
Kim Jong-il ( ko, 김종일, born 11 September 1962), sometimes transliterated Kim Yong-il, is a South Korean retired long jumper, best known for winning two gold medals at the Asian Games. He also competed in the Olympics twice, and was the first Korean athlete to have made a final round at the Olympics. His personal best jump was 8.00 metres, achieved in August 1988 in Seoul. After retiring as an active athlete, he turned to a career in coaching and academics. Athletics career Kim Jong-il was born on 11 September 1962,. Retrieved on 30 December 2008. and is a native of Jincheon. He became a member of the national track and field team in 1979, and first made his mark internationally by winning the gold medal in long jump at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. His jump of 7.94 metres was the second best Asian Games result of all times, only behind T.C. Yohannan's winning jump of 8.07 metres in 1974. Kim beat second-placed Liu Yuhuang with a slim margin of five centimetres, and thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Jong-il
Choi Jong-il (born November 5, 1965) is a South Korean president and CEO of Iconix Entertainment Iconix Co, Ltd. ( ko, ㈜아이코닉스) is an entertainment studio based in Seoul, and is a major South Korean entertainment company formed by the merger of Iconix. The company is commonly referred to as simply "Iconix", the same name used in .... Choi is best known as the creator of Pororo. Pororo The Little Penguin Choi created '' Pororo the Little Penguin'', which sold to 130 countries. References External links Iconix Official Website * 1965 births South Korean chief executives Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Korea-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il (Korean Name)
Il is a Korean given name and name element. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Hanja There are ten hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are: # (한 일 ''han il''): one # (날 일 ''nal il''): sun, day # (달아날 일 ''doranal il''): escape # (넘칠 일 ''neomchil il''): overflow # (무게 이름 일 ''muge ireum il''): unit of weight # (역말 일 ''yeongmal il''): post horse # (줄 춤 일 ''jul chum il''): row of dancers # (편안할 일 ''pananhal il''): comfortable, indulgent # (한 일 ''han il''): one ''( complex form)'' # (기쁠 일 ''gibbeul il''): happiness People People with the single-syllable given name Il include: *Yi Il (1538–1601), Joseon Dynasty general *Kim Il (politician) (1910–1984), Premier of North Korea from 1972 to 1976 *Nam Il (1915–1976), North Korean general *Kim Il (1929–2006), Japanese name Kintaro Ohki, Japanese wrestler ... [...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] |
Revised Romanization Of Korean
Revised Romanization of Korean () is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. It was developed by the National Academy of the Korean Language from 1995 and was released to the public on 7 July 2000 by South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Proclamation No. 2000-8. The new system addressed problems in the implementation of the McCune–Reischauer system, such as the phenomena where different consonants and vowels became indistinguishable in the absence of special symbols. To be specific, under the McCune–Reischauer system, Korean consonants ''(k)'', ''(t)'', ''(p)'' and ''(ch)'' and ''(kʼ)'', ''(tʼ)'', ''(pʼ)'' and ''(chʼ)'' became indistinguishable when the apostrophe was removed. In addition, Korean vowels ''(ŏ)'' and ''(o)'', as well as ''(ŭ)'' and ''(u)'', became indistinguishable when the breve was removed. Especially in internet use, where omission of apostr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanization Of Korean (North)
Romanization of Korean is the official Korean-language romanization system in North Korea. Announced by the ''Sahoe Kwahagwŏn'', it is an adaptation of the older McCune–Reischauer McCune–Reischauer romanization () is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems. A modified version of McCune–Reischauer was the official romanization system in South Korea until 2002, when it was replaced by the Re ... system, which it replaced in 1992, and it was updated in 2002 and 2012. Transcription rules Vowels Consonants *In double consonants in the end of a word or before a consonant, only one of them is written: :*닭섬 → ''Taksŏm'' :*물곬 → ''Mulkol'' *However, in the case before a vowel, both consonants are written: :*붉은바위 → ''Pulgŭnbawi'' :*앉은바위 → ''Anjŭnbawi'' *The soft voiceless consonants between vowels ㄱ, ㄷ, and ㅂ and those between resonant sounds and vowels are transcribed as ''g'', ''d'', and ''b''. *Final ... [...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] |
Ra Jong-yil
Ra Jong-yil ( ko, 라종일; born 1940) is a former South Korean ambassador who has authored books on politics concerning North Korea. Education Ra received a PhD at the University of Cambridge. Career Ra served as South Korea's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2003 and as its ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007. Works In 2013, Ra released a book about 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 ...the only person who ever admitted involvement with an attempt to assassinate the SouthKorean president in 1983whom Ra described as "one of the countless young men sacrificed in the long rivalry between the two Koreas and then forgotten". Ra's 2016 book, ''The Path Taken by Jang Song‑thaek: A Rebellious Outsider'', made claims that Kim J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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