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Tae-yong
Tae-yong is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading " tae" and 24 hanja with the reading " yong" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Additionally, there is one character with the reading "ryong" which may also be written and pronounced "yong" in South Korea. Notable people with this name include: * Cho Tae-yong (born 1956), South Korean diplomat *Kim Tae-yong (born 1969), South Korean film director *Shin Tae-yong (born 1970), South Korean footballer * Kim Taeyong (writer) (born 1974), South Korean writer *Kim Tae-yong (director, born 1987), South Korean film director *Lee Tae-yong Lee Tae-yong (; born July 1, 1995), known mononymously as Taeyong, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is a member and leader of South Korean boy band NCT under SM Entertainment, having debuted in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Tae-yong
Kim Tae-yong (born December 9, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. After his feature directorial debut '' Memento Mori'' (1999), he helmed the critically acclaimed ''Family Ties'' (2006), and the English-language remake '' Late Autumn'' (2010). Career Although he initially wanted to pursue writing, Kim Tae-yong eventually graduated from Yonsei University in 1994 with a major in Politics and Diplomacy. He first became involved in Korean cinema through a friend, who was an assistant director of an independent production. Inspired by the vibrant atmosphere that came with working on a set, Kim then enrolled at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) in 1996. He met and became friends with fellow director Min Kyu-dong while at KAFA, where he and his classmates would work on short films as a part of the crew and doing lighting. In 1999, Kim and Min received the offer to direct '' Memento Mori'' as a sequel to the horror film ''Whispering Corridors'' (1998), and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Tae-yong
Shin Tae-yong (, Hanja: 申台龍; born on 11 May 1970) is a South Korean former professional footballer and manager who is currently coaching the Indonesia national football team. He is the first man to win the Asian Club Championship/AFC Champions League as both player and manager, having won the 1995 Asian Club Championship and the 2010 AFC Champions League with Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. Club career After graduating from Yeungnam University, Shin spent 12 seasons playing for Ilhwa Chunma. He won the K League Young Player of the Year Award in 1992, the first year of his professional career. He was a key player for Ilhwa Chunma when they won the K League for three consecutive years from 1993 to 1995. Especially in 1995, he became the Most Valuable Player of the K League, and also won the Asian Club Championship in the end of the year. Afterwards, Ilhwa Chunma faltered for a while, but they succeeded in conquering the league again under Shin's contribution. They once again won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Tae-yong (director, Born 1987)
Kim Tae-yong (born March 20, 1987) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim got into filmmaking before he turned 20 years old, after watching and inspired by the film '' The Son'' by directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. His directorial feature debut '' Set Me Free'' (2014), critically acclaimed for its stable scriptwriting and direction, is based on his own story. Filmography *''As Children'' (short film, 2005) - director *''Twenty's Wind'' (short film, 2005) - director *''You Can Count on Me'' (short film, 2006) - director *''Solongos'' (short film, 2007) - director *''Exhausted'' (2009) - assistant director *''Frozen Land'' (short film, 2010) - director, screenwriter *''Social Service Agent'' (short film, 2011) - director, screenwriter, editor *''Night Market'' (short film, 2012) - director *''Night Bugs'' (short film, 2012) - director, screenwriter *''Spring Fever'' (short film, 2013) - director, screenwriter *''One Summer Night'' (short film, 2014) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Tae-yong
Cho Tae-yong (born 1956) is a South Korean career diplomat with over three decades of experience who has served as South Korea's Deputy National Security Advisor since October 2015. Cho has extensive experience in a range of high-level diplomatic assignments dealing with the United States and North Korea. In November 2016, he represented South Korea in talks with Michael Flynn and other members of then-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's foreign policy team on North Korea. He and then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken held five rounds of U.S.-South Korea strategic consultations on North Korea between 2015 and 2017. As South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister between 2014 and 2015, he represented South Korea in regular U.S.-South Korea-Japan trilateral talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama. He is not to be confused with Cho Tae-yul, a similarly named South Korean career diplomat who was South Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Tae-yong
Lee Tae-yong (; born July 1, 1995), known mononymously as Taeyong, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is a member and leader of South Korean boy band NCT under SM Entertainment, having debuted in the group's first sub-unit, NCT U, in 2016 and becoming the leader of its second sub-unit, NCT 127, later that year. In 2019, he debuted as a member of the South Korean supergroup SuperM, a joint project under SM Entertainment and Capitol Records, and released his first solo single, "Long Flight". As a songwriter, Taeyong has participated in writing over 40 songs in four languages, released mostly by NCT's various units and himself as a soloist. Life and career Early life Lee Taeyong was born on July 1, 1995, in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from the School of Performing Arts Seoul. 2012–2016: Pre-debut activities In 2012, Taeyong was scouted on the street by an SM Entertainment recruiter and joined the company after successfully passin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tae (Korean Given Name)
Tae, also spelled Tai or Thae, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, and an element used in many two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning of this given name may have a variety of meanings depending on the hanja used to write it. As a given name In given names, the meaning of "Tae" depends on the hanja used to write it. There are 20 hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are: # (클 태 ''keul tae''): "great" # (클 태 ''keul tae''): "exalted" # (게으를 태 ''ge-eureul tae''): "idle" # (거의 태 ''geo-ui tae'', 위태할 태 ''witaehal tae''): "almost", "dangerous" # (모습 태 ''moseup tae''): "form", "shape" # (일 태 ''il tae''): "to wash" # (바꿀 태 ''bakkul tae''): "to change" # (별 태 ''byeol tae''): "platform" # (아이 밸 태 ''ai bael tae''): "unborn child" # (나라 이름 태 ''nara ireum tae''): Tai, an ancient city-state in modern Shaanxi, China # (볼기 칠 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yong (Korean Name)
Yong (Korean Hangul: , Korean Hanja: ) is a family name used in Korea, as well as a character in some Korean given names. It may also mean sun in some cases. As a family name, it may also be spelled Ryong in Korea. It is of Sino-Korean origin. As a family name Most hanja with the reading Yong are pronounced that way in all dialects of Korean. However, the character used to write the family name (, meaning "dragon"), is also read as Ryong and spelled as such in hangul (룡). This is the standard reading in North Korea and among Koreans in China. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on a sample of year 2007 applications for South Korean passports, it was found that 97% of people with this surname chose to have it spelled it in Latin letters as Yong, while 3% chose to spell it Young, and none spelled it Ryong. Yong is one of the 100 most common given names in China The 2000 South Korean Census found 14,067 people and 4,320 households with this family name ... [...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] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has a Demographics of South Korea, population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the List of metropolitan areas by population, fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Taeyong (writer)
Kim Taeyong ( ko, 김태용; born 1974) is a South Korean writer. Life Kim Taeyong was born in Seoul in 1974. He graduated in creative writing from Soongsil University. He began his literary career when his short story “''Oreunjjogeseo sebeonjjae jip''” (오른쪽에서 세 번째 집 The Third House from the Right) was published in the 2005 spring issue of the quarterly literary magazine ''Segyeuimunhak''. He has won the ''Hankook Ilbo Literary Award'', ''Moonji Literary Award'', ''KimHyun Literary Award.'' Writing Kim Taeyong's works are weird and grotesque. The title story of his first collection, “''Pulbat wiui dwaeji''” (풀밭 위의 돼지 The Pig on the Grass), has a scene where a wife, a husband, and a pig are lying next to one another on the grass. The pig then jumps over the husband's body and goes next to the wife. The wife does not show that she dislikes this. Such depiction of the wife, the husband, and the pig lying and tangled on the grass, evok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Masculine Given Names
Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ..., known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language **See also: North–South differences in the Korean language Places * Korean Peninsula, a peninsula in East Asia * Korea, a region of East Asia * North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea * South Korea, the Republic of Korea Other uses *Korean Air, flag carrier and the largest airline of South Korea See also *Korean War, 1950–1953 war between North Korea and South Korea *Names of Korea, various country names used in international contexts *History of Korea, the history of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
