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Please give me some male Korean names, plus some Korean surnames.? |
Travel Info And can someone tell me about Korean naming conventions, e.g. in Japan, where people have their surnames first. Travel Tips kim, lee, park, chung, those are the four most common korean last names in korea, in order last names are usually one letter(syllable) long, but there are some with two letters last names always come before the given name given names tend to be two letters(syallable) long, thus making common length of names as three, but there are some given names that are one syllable or three, or even four. i once heard about a child named after the east sea ( better known in the world as sea of japan) so his name was kim-dong-hae-ba-dah. that's five syllables these last names were bestowed to people who have done a "great" work for the country in the "three kingdom era" or the sam-gok-shi-dae. the "common" people did not have surnames. having a surname back then was a great honor most surnames origins, or the first person to have the name can be traced back to china or other parts of asia. for example the first person with surname "sung" was supposibly fifth son of a chinese emperor. to a foreigner, having so many people with same last names might be baffling. but most of the surnames have different ways it is written in "hanja" or chinese characters. most surnames are based upon chinese characters. it it just the same pronunciation, for example "kim" that has numerous different chinese character roots these different chinese roots means that the members are of different families. to simplify things, surnames are sometimes addes with the place of oirigin to clearfy the family. but there are some surnames, such as "sung" and "eo" that are only one of one family. thus there are less people with these last names wiht the different chinese characters with same last names, there are different meanings with the last name. for example, one of the "kim" means " gold mountain" while other means something else for the given names, there is a tradition called "dol rim" which is giving a same chinese character for each generation. this allows members of the family to know their generations or the other members of their generation right off the bat. this tradition was tradiitonaly onyl for the males in the family, but now days, there it is used for females also. the tradition has been completely dropped for some families. example: my brother's generation of my family has the letter " taek". my dad's generation has "jong" my cousins generation in my mom's side have "suo" there are some parents who prefer names that have no chinese letter counterparts, and use pure korean words such as " bah-dah" which means ocean. there are some families who have a log of all of the members of the family. these traditionally only had males but now some put females in too. for more (and more organized) info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/korean_surn... Others There really is no best answer. All this input has been great. Thanks, guys! Xiao Xing Tsung sun beom sung hyun sung min surnames: yun lim kim yeon park As to surnames, there is an old saying, that if you throw a rock off Namsan, you will hit a Kim, Pak, or Yi. Another common surname is Choi. The family name goes first, then the first given name and the second given name. Traditionally, the second given name might be common among brothers and sisters of the same generation. For example, there might be two sisters named "KIM MiSuk" and "KIM SonSuk". As an aside, the former President/Dictator Pak ChungHee had given names more common for a girl than a boy. Today, some of these conventions are going away. Especially entertainers may use only a family name and one given name. Also, the "generational" second given name is much less common than in the past. names Sang Won Tae Won Han jin Sei Hoon Jung Hwan Jun Hyun Won Suk Jeong Jo surnames Kim Park Lee Choi Cho Ho Moon Kang Shin Jang |
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