| Jung-sook | |
| Hangul | 정숙 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 正 淑, 貞 淑, and others |
| Revised Romanization | Jeong-suk |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏngsuk |
Jung-sook, also spelled Jeong-sook or Jong-suk, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" 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. [1] According to South Korean government data, Jung-sook was the fourth-most popular name for newborn girls in 1940, rising to second place by 1950. [2] [3]
Korea is a region in East Asia. Since 1948, it has been divided between two distinct sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. Korea is bordered by China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and neighbours Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan.
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Hanja-mal or Hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with Hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because Hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters, though the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters 教 and 研 are written as 敎 and 硏. Only a small number of Hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.
Jung, also spelled Jeong or Chong, is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names, one of the most numerous among all Korean language syllables; they are listed in the table at right.
People with this name include:
- Ho Jong-suk (1908–1991), Korean independence activist, later a North Korean politician
- Kim Jong-suk (1917 or 1919–1949), Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla, first wife of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung
- Oh Jeong-suk (1935–2008), South Korean pansori musician
- Kim Jung-sook (born 1954), South Korean classical vocalist, wife of South Korean president Moon Jae-in
- Yun Jeong-suk (born 1966), South Korean fencer
- Lee Jeong-sook (born 1971), South Korean fencer
- Lim Jeong-sook (born 1972), South Korean field hockey player
- Jung Jung-suk (1982–2011), South Korean football player
Ho Jong-suk was a Korean independence activist, writer, journalist, and communist. Her real name was Jongja.
Kim Jong-suk was a Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla, a Communist activist, North Korean leader Kim Il-sung’s second wife, former leader Kim Jong-il’s mother, and current leader Kim Jong-un's grandmother.
Oh Jeong-suk was an ingan-munhwage for pansori. She was designated as an ingan-munhwage 1 May 1991. She specialized in Chunhyangga, which is the 5th Important Intangible Cultural Property of Korea.
Fictional characters with this name include:
- Yoon Jung-sook, in 2004 South Korean television series Sweet 18
Sweet 18 is a South Korean television series that aired on KBS2 in 2004. The story strongly focuses on both personal and clan-level relationships between Jung-sook, a member of Papyeong's Yun clan, and Hyuk-joon, a member of Andong's Kwon clan. Both clans had hoped for re-establishing good relations after being separated for three generations by war, by arranging a marriage between Jung-sook and Hyuk-joon upon Jung-sook's birth.
