Yoo Jae-pil
Yoo may refer to: * Yoo (Korean surname), also spelled Ryu or Yu, a Korean family name * YOO, the IATA code for Oshawa Airport See also *You In Modern English, ''you'' is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers. History ''You'' comes from the Proto- ...

Yoo (Korean Surname)
Yoo or You, or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as or in hangul. As of 2000, roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea, making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those, the most common is Ryu (Hanja: , Hangul: ),A rank 19th with 603,084 people, KOSTAT (Korea National Statistical Office), 2000. with more than six hundred thousand holders, whereas Yoo (Hanja: , Hangul: ) accounts for about one hundred thousand. The family name Yoo can be represented by any of the four hanja: (), , and , each with a different meaning. In Korean, the characters and refer to (Ryu) or (Yoo) and are spelled as such because of the first initial sound rule () in Korean, whereas the characters and refer only to (Yoo). Some of these characters are used to write the Chinese surnames Liu ( or ) and Yu(). Notable (Ryu) clans include the Munhwa Ryu clan and the Pungsan Ryu. History In Korea, the Yoo lineage traces to t ...
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