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Woo-sung (name)
Woo-sung is a Korean male given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used. There are 42 hanja with the reading "woo" and 27 hanja with the reading " sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. People with this name include: * Hyun Woo-sung (born 1979), South Korean actor * Jung Woo-sung (born 1973), South Korean actor and director * Kam Woo-sung (born 1970), South Korean actor * Lee Woo-sung (born 1984), South Korean baseball player *Kim Woo-sung (alpine skier) (born 1986), South Korean alpine skier *Kim Woo-sung (singer) (born 1993), American singer of Korean descent, member of The Rose 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 giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seong
Seong, also spelled Song or Sung, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Family name The family name Seong is written with only one hanja, meaning "succeed" or "accomplish" (). The 2000 South Korean Census found 167,903 people with this family name, up by six percent from 158,385 in the 1985 census. This increase was far smaller than the fifteen percent growth in the overall South Korean population over the same period. They traced their origins to only a single '' bon-gwan'', Changnyeong County. This was also the place where they formed the highest concentration of the local population, with 2,360 people (3.61%). In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 67.4% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Sung in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyun Woo-sung
Hyun Woo-Sung (born March 16, 1979) is a South Korean actor. Filmography Television series References External links Hyun Woo-sung Fan Cafeat Daum * Hyun Woo-sung Official Fan Club of Japan South Korean male actors Living people 1979 births South Korean male television actors Seoul National University of Science and Technology alumni {{Korea-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jung Woo-sung
Jung Woo-sung (born March 20, 1973) is a South Korean actor and the first Korean UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Jung started his career as a fashion model, rising to stardom and teenage cult status with the gangster movie ''Beat'' (1997), for which he won Best New Actor at the 17th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. Jung is also widely popular in other Asian countries, notably in Japan. He is a versatile actor known for playing leading roles in a wide spectrum of genres including high-grossing box office hits: '' Steel Rain'' (2017), '' The King'' (2017), '' Asura: The City of Madness'' (2016), ''The Divine Move'' (2014), ''Cold Eyes'' (2013); martial arts pic: ''Reign of Assassins'' (2010), fantasy: '' The Restless'' (2006); dramas; '' Don't Forget Me'' (2016), ''City of the Rising Sun'' (1998), erotic thriller '' Scarlet Innocence'' (2014); romantic movies: '' A Good Rain Knows'' (2009), '' Daisy'' (2006), ''A Moment to Remember'' (2004) and historical epic ''Musa'' (2001). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kam Woo-sung
Kam Woo-sung (born October 1, 1970) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his portrayal of a court jester serving a despotic king in the hit period film '' The King and the Clown''. Career Kam Woo-sung majored in Oriental painting at the Seoul National University, then made his acting debut in the 1991 television drama ''Our Paradise''. Through his roles on TV in the following decade, Kam became known for playing gentle and intellectual upper-middle-class men, notably in ''Hyun-jung, I Love You''. Then in 2002, he successfully subverted this image in his first film, the critically acclaimed '' Marriage Is a Crazy Thing'', in which he played a commitment-phobic professor having a passionate affair. More characters followed in a variety of genres: a man trapped in a confusing and haunting sequence of events in Song Il-gon's mystery film ''Spider Forest''; the PTSD-afflicted leader of a South Korean squadron in Vietnam who looks into the mysterious disappearance of 18 so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Woo-sung
Lee Woo-sung (; born 17 July 1994) is a South Korean professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Kia Tigers of the KBO League. He graduated from Daejeon High School. Lee was selected for the Doosan Bears by a draft in 2013.(2nd round) Originally, he was a promising player in Doosan and NC, and was considered a typical big gun prospect with poor contact, foresight, and defense, but after a brief flash after the KIA transfer, he fell off his most attractive power tool after being hit by Brooks Rayleigh. After that, he turned into a hustle player who boldly runs and slides while supplementing contacts while losing weight. After the transfer to KIA, he has consistently appealed his presence by stealing several bases with above-average main power along with good defense. Anyway, instead of losing the slugging tool, which was the biggest attraction in batting-related areas, he became a completely different type of player from previous expectations by having versat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Woo-sung (alpine Skier)
Kim Woo-sung (born April 2, 1986) is an alpine skier from South Korea. He has competed for South Korea at the 2006 Olympics and the 2010 Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz .... References External links * 1986 births Living people South Korean male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for South Korea Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Asian Games medalists in alpine skiing Alpine skiers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Alpine skiers at the 2011 Asian Winter Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Woo-sung (singer)
Kim Woo-sung ( ko, 김우성, born February 25, 1993, in Wonju, South Korea), also known as Woosung and Sammy, is a Korean-American singer–songwriter and composer, best known as a vocalist and electric guitarist of South Korean band The Rose. He made his solo debut on July 25, 2019, with the extended play ''Wolf''. Career Woosung grew up in the US and came to Korea after auditioning for the first season of the reality show K-pop Star. After being eliminated, he took a break from music and taught English in Korea. He debuted on August 3, 2017, as a vocalist and electric guitarist of rock band, The Rose which consists of members Hajoon, Woosung, Dojoon, and Jaehyung. The band debuted with their single '''Sorry. On March 20, 2019, it was announced on Twitter that Kim will be the third MC on After School Club, replacing Seungmin. Kim would MC along with Park Jimin and Han Hee-jun Han Hee-jun (Hangul: 한희준; April 20, 1989) is a Korean-American singer from Flushin ... [...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] |
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] |
