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Jung-nam
Jung-nam, also spelled Jeong-nam or Jong-nam, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. Hanja and meaning There are 75 hanja with the reading "Jung (Korean given name), jung" and five hanja with the reading "nam" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Some ways of writing this name in hanja include: * (; ), meaning "righteous man". The same characters are also used to write the Japanese masculine given name Masao. According to South Korean government data, Jung-nam was the List of the most popular given names in South Korea, eighth-most popular name for newborn boys in 1945. People People with this name include: Entertainers * (born 1983), South Korean model and TV personality Sportspeople *Baek Jeong-nam (1936–2005), South Korean basketball player *Kim Jung-nam (born 1943), South Korean football manager *Kim Jeong-nam (rower) (born 1963), South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoo Jung-nam
Yoo Jung-nam (also ''Yu Jeong-nam'', ko, 유 정남; born 12 September 1983) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of four medals (one silver and three bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the 2002 Asian Games and the 2005 East Asian Games. Yoo is also a member of the swimming team and a graduate of physical education at Seoul National University. Yoo competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he topped the field with a time of 2:00.77 to make the FINA B-cut at the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan. Rallying from sixth at the 150-metre turn in heat two, Yoo put in a late surge on the final lap to edge out the frontrunners Douglas Lennox-Silva of Puerto Rico and Vladan Marković Vladan Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Мар ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |