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Mu-young
Mu-young is a Korean unisex given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 21 hanja with the reading "mu" and 32 hanja with the reading " young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. People with this name include: * Moo-Young Han (born 1934), South Korean professor of physics at Duke University * Mu-Young Kim (born 1985), South Korean baseball pitcher *Kim Moo-young (born 1986), legal name since 2014 of Juno (singer), South Korean singer Fictional characters with this name include: *Mu-young, in 2012 South Korean television series '' Arang and the Magistrate'' *Park Mu-young, in 1999 South Korean film '' Shiri'' 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. Fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiri (film)
''Shiri'' () is a 1999 South Korean action film, written and directed by Kang Je-gyu. ''Shiri'' was the first Hollywood-style big-budget blockbuster to be produced in the new Korean film industry (i.e. after Korea's major economic boom in the late 1990s).Anthony Leong (2001)"Shiri Movie Review" ''Media Circus''. Retrieved 11 November 2007. Created as a deliberate homage to the "high-octane" action film made popular by Hollywood through the 1980s, it also contained a story that draws on strong Korean national sentiment to fuel its drama. Much of the film's visual style shares that of the Asian action cinema, and particularly Hong Kong action cinema, of John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, and the relentless pace of the second unit directors, like Vic Armstrong and Guy Hamilton, in the James Bond films. The movie was released under the name ''Shiri'' outside of South Korea; in South Korea the title was spelled ''Swiri''. The name refers to ''Coreoleuciscus splendidus'', a fish found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mu-Young Kim
Kim Mu-young (born November 22, 1985) is a South Korean former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2009 and from 2011 to 2014 and with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles The , often shortened as the , are a baseball team based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It has played in Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League since the team's formation in November 2004. The team is owned by the Internet shopping c ... in 2016. External links NPB stats 1985 births Living people Criollos de Caguas players Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks players Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers South Korean expatriate baseball players in Japan Expatriate baseball players in Puerto Rico {{SouthKorea-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arang And The Magistrate
''Arang and the Magistrate'' (; also known as ''Tale of A-rang'') is a 2012 South Korean historical television drama (''sageuk''), starring Lee Joon-gi, Shin Min-ah, and Yeon Woo-jin. The period horror-romance is based on the folklore of Arang, who died unjustly and returns as a ghost in order to reveal the circumstances surrounding her death. It aired on MBC from August 15 to October 18, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Synopsis A nobleman named Kim Eun-oh (Lee Joon-gi) comes to town searching for his mother after hearing a rumor that she is staying at the village of Miryang. He has the special ability to hear, see and touch spirits, but pretends he doesn't because he gets annoyed when they pester him to help them. A-rang (Shin Min-ah) lost all her memories when she became a ghost and is unable to rest in peace until she finds out how she died. After appearing to three magistrates, none of them survive the fright of seeing her. Some local officials, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young (Korean Name)
Young, also spelled Yeong, or Yong, Yung, is an uncommon Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja one could be moon for example. used to write it. There are 44 hanja with the reading "''young''" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Family name As a Korean family name, Young can be written with three different hanja, indicating different lineages. According to the 2000 South Korean Census, a total of 259 people had these family names. * (길 영 ''gil yeong'', meaning "eternal"): 132 people and 40 households. Reported ''bon-gwan'' (clan hometowns) included Gangnyeong, Gyeongju, and Pyeonghae. Although the family name was found in numerous historical records, it was recorded under the census for the first time in the 1930 survey with one family living in Seoul. More families bearing the surname has ... [...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] |
Moo-Young Han
Moo-Young Han (November 30, 1934 – May 15, 2016) was a South Korean-born American physicist. He was a professor of physics at Duke University. Along with Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago, he is credited with introducing the SU(3) symmetry of quarks, today known as the color charge. The color charge is the basis of the strong force as explained by quantum chromodynamics. Early life and career Han was born in Seoul, Korea. He emigrated to the US after the Korean War to attend Carroll University, Carroll College. He received his Ph.D from the University of Rochester in 1964 and joined the physics faculty at Duke University, Durham NC in 1967. He is survived by his wife, Chang Ki, three children, Grace Hewon, Christopher Su-Young, and Anthony Suh-Young, and an array of grandchildren. Career Han received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1964 from the University of Rochester. Han's research specialty is in the field of theoretical particle physics, with an emphasis on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno (singer)
Kim Jun-ho () (born on December 15, 1986) is a South Korean singer, who is mainly active in Japan and China, where he is more well known by his stage names JUNO and ZUNO. His younger fraternal twin brother is JYJ-member Junsu. In 2014 he changed his name to Kim Moo-young. Career Pre-debut Kim Jun-ho started playing baseball in elementary school and was scouted by the professional South Korean team SK Wyverns during high school. He attended Dong-eui University in Busan but dropped out during his freshman year due to a sports injury, which also ended his career as a professional baseball player. 2010-12: Debut in China and Japan, acting debut In 2010, after having studied acting for two years and having spent a year at Beijing Normal University, Kim made his singing debut in China as ZUNO. A year later, the singer debuted in Japan with his single album ''Fate'' as JUNO. The second single album ''Believe'' placed third on the Oricon daily chart and became the theme song for a Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
