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Kyung-chul
Kyung-chul, also spelled Kyong-chol or Gyeong-cheol, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and 11 hanja with the reading " chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. People with this name include: * Cho Gyeong-chul (1929–2010), South Korean astronomer * Park Gyeong-cheol (born 1969), South Korean sprint canoer * Ri Kyong-chol (born 1979), North Korean long-distance runner * Lee Kyung-chul, South Korean archer * Cho Kyong-chol, North Korean Supreme People's Assembly member for Sungrisan; see 2014 North Korean parliamentary election Fictional characters with this name include: * Jang Kyung-chul, in 2010 South Korean film ''I Saw the Devil ''I Saw the Devil'' () is a 2010 South Korean action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Byung-hun and Choi M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Saw The Devil
''I Saw the Devil'' () is a 2010 South Korean action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik, the film follows NIS agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee), who embarks on a quest of revenge when his fiancée is brutally murdered by the psychopathic serial killer Jang Kyung-chul (Choi). ''I Saw the Devil'' made its premiere in the United States at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and had a limited U.S theatrical release. ''I Saw the Devil'' was Choi Min-sik's first major role since the changes to the Korean screen quota system. Plot One night, a school-bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul encounters a pregnant woman named Jang Joo-yun and offers to fix her flat tire. After beating her unconscious, Kyung-chul dismembers Joo-yun at his home, and while doing so, Joo-yun's ring falls. Kyung-chul ignores it and scatters the body parts into a local stream. When a boy discovers one of Joo-yun's ears, the police arrive en masse to cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyung
Kyung, also spelled Kyoung, Gyeong, Kyeong, or Kyong, is an uncommon Korean family name, as well as a single-syllable Korean given name and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As a family name The 2000 South Korean Census found 15,784 people with the family name Kyung. It may be written with either of two different hanja. Those with the name meaning "scenery" () may belong to one of two different ''bon-gwan'': Haeju, South Hwanghae, in what is today North Korea, and Taein (泰仁). There is only one ''bon-gwan'' for the other Kyung surname, meaning "celebration" (): Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, in what is today South Korea. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 69.2% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Kyung in their passports, while another 19.2% spelled it as Kyoung. The Revised Romanisation spelling Gyeong came in third place at 7.6%. Rarer ... [...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] |
Chul (Korean Name)
Chul, also spelled Cheol or Chol, is a single-syllable Korean masculine given name, as well as an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Hanja There are 11 hanja with the reading "chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names, as well as variant Chinese character, variant forms of two of those hanja; they are: # (쇠 철 ''soe cheol''): "iron" #* (variant of above) # (밝을 철 ''balgeul cheol''): "bright", "keen" #* (variant of above) # (통할 철 ''tonghal cheol''): "to penetrate" # (맑을 철 ''malgeul cheol''): "pure" # (거둘 철 ''geodul cheol''): "to harvest", "to achieve" # (바퀴 자국 철 ''bakwi jaguk cheol''): "wheel track" # (엮을 철 ''yeokkeul cheol''): "to weave" # (볼록할 철 ''bollokhal cheol''): "convex", "to protrude" # (그칠 철 ''geuchil cheol''): "to stop" # (밝을 철 ''balgeul cheol''): "wise" # (눈 밝을 철 ''nun balgeul ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Gyeong-chul
Cho Gyeong-chul ( ko, 조경철, April 4, 1929 – March 6, 2010) was a South Korean astronomer who worked at NASA and the US Naval Observatory. Biography He was born in Sonchon, Pyongannam-do. He finished his middle and high school courses at Pyongyang and was then admitted to Yonhui University. During the Korean War he served in the South Korean army, and in 1952 he was a professor at the South Korean military academy. In 1954 he graduated in physics from Yonhui University. After graduating, he went to the United States to study further. He studied politics at Tusculum College, however he later changed his major to astronomy at University of Michigan and finally received his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania. After obtaining his doctorate, he worked for several corporations, observatories and university in the 1960s, most notably at the United States Naval Observatory and NASA. He went back to South Korea in 1968, where he worked as a professor at Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Gyeong-cheol
Park Gyeong-cheol (born January 23, 1969) is a South Korean sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ..., he was eliminated in the repechages in both the C-2 500 m event and the C-2 1000 m event. References * 1969 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists of South Korea South Korean male canoeists {{SouthKorea-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ri Kyong-chol
Ri Kyong-chol (born 8 March 1979) is a North Korean long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. His personal best time is 2:11:36 hours, achieved at the 2005 Pyongyang Marathon. He finished 32nd at the 2005 World Championships. He also finished fourteenth in the half marathon at the 2003 Summer Universiade, ninth at the 2006 Asian Games and won the 2005 and 2006 Pyongyang Marathon Pyongyang Marathon, also known as Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon, is an annual marathon race contested each April in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It is categorised as an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race. The marathon was held for t .... Achievements References 1979 births Living people North Korean male marathon runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for North Korea {{NorthKorea-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Kyung-chul
Lee Kyung-Chul (Hangul: 이경철) is a South Korean archer who won the 1995 World Archery Championships in Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta .... References South Korean male archers World Archery Championships medalists 20th-century South Korean people 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-archery-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Kyong-chol
Cho or CHO may refer to: People * Chief Happiness Officer Surnames * Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname * Zhuo (), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname * Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao () * Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang (Kanji ) ** Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese ''go'' player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion ** Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor **Isamu Chō (1895-1945), Japanese lieutenant general Characters * Cho Hakkai, the Japanese name for ''Zhū Bājiè'' or "Pigsy", a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, ''Journey to the West'', by Wu Cheng'en ** Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki), the same character in the manga and anime series ''Saiyuki'', based on the novel Given name * Cho Ramaswamy (1934-2016), Indian actor and writer * Cho, a Burmese given name meaning "sweet" commonly used at the start of a female name and at the end for mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 North Korean Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 9 March 2014 to elect the members of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly. Background This was the first election since the assumption of Kim Jong-un as leader of the country as the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea, following the death of his father Kim Jong-il and the execution of Jang Song-thaek. Outside observers claimed the elections were an effective way to poll the population on their opinion on the government. In addition, it functioned as a way for the government to determine whether any of its citizens had illegally changed their voting district within the country, or if people had left the country. The North Korean Government did so by enforcing borders and surveillance, in order to make sure that the voter turnout is reflective of the population. If there were missing people, then the local workers and residents would be found responsible, so local workers tried to ensure order in their region. On 4 February, KC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
