Kyung-sook, also spelled Gyeong-suk, Kyung-suk or Kyong-suk, is a Korean feminine 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 54 hanja with the reading "
kyung
Kyung, also spelled Kyoung, Gyeong, Kyeong, or Kyong, is an uncommon Korean family name, as well as a single-syllable Korean given name and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names.
As a family name
The 2000 South Korean Census found 1 ...
" and 13 hanja with the reading "sook" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
Kyung-sook was the seventh-most popular name for baby girls in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...
in 1950, rising to fifth place by 1960.
People with this name include:
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Pak Kyong-suk (1921–2020), North Korean politician
*Jeong Gyeong-suk (born ), South Korean flight attendant, one of the unreturned victims of the 1969
Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking
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Mun Gyeong-suk (born 1945), South Korean volleyball player
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Shin Kyung-sook
Kyung-Sook Shin, also Shin Kyung-sook or Shin Kyoung-sook (, born 12 January 1963), is a South Korean writer. She was the only South Korean and only woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for '' Please Look After Mom''.
Life
Kyung-So ...
(born 1963), South Korean writer
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Kim Gyeong-suk (born 1967), South Korean cyclist
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Ri Kyong Suk (North Korean singer) (born 1970), North Korean singer
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Won Gyeong-suk (born 1975), South Korean sport shooter
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Jin Gyeong-suk (1980–2005), North Korean defector
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Hong Kyung-suk (born 1984), South Korean football player
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Park Kyung-suk (taekwondo), South Korean taekwondo athlete
See also
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List of Korean given names
References
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Korean feminine given names