Gi-ung or Ki-woong is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the

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, ...

used to write each syllable of the name. There are 68 hanja with the reading "gi" and two hanja with the reading " ung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. People with this name include: * Kang Ki-woong ( 강기웅, born 1965), South Korean baseball player, competed in Baseball at the 1984 Summer Olympics *

Park Ki-woong Park Ki-woong (born February 13, 1985) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for the TV series '' The Slingshot'' (2009) and '' Bridal Mask'' (2012), Return (2018) and Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung (2019) as well as the films ''My Tutor F ...

(born 1985), South Korean actor * Bae Gi-ung, South Korean boxer, represented

South Korea at the 1996 Summer Olympics South Korea competed as ''Korea'' at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 300 competitors, 189 men and 111 women, took part in 160 events in 25 sports. Medalists Archery Korea's fifth appearance in Olympic archery earned them ...

*Kim Ki-woong, one of victims of the

sinking of the MV Sewol The ferry MV ''Sewol'' sank on the morning of April 16, 2014, en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about north of Byeongpungdo at 08:58 KST (23:58 UTC, April 15, 2014). Out of ...

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