Oh or O is a family name in Korea. It is written using the hanja characters,吳,五,伍,吾,and 晤. According to the 2015 census in South Korea,there were 763,281 people carrying the O surname.
Shin is a Korean surname. Other rarer romanizations of this surname include Sin or Sheen.
Park,also spelled as Pak or Bak is the third-most common surname in Korea,traditionally traced back to 1st century King Hyeokgeose Park and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. Park or Bak is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun Bak (박),meaning "gourd". As of the South Korean census of 2015,there were 4,192,074 people with the name in South Korea,or roughly 8.4% of the population.
Choi is a Korean family surname. As of the South Korean census of 2015,there were around 2.3 million people by this name in South Korea or roughly 4.7% of the population. In English-speaking countries,it is most often anglicized as Choi,and sometimes also Chey,Choe or Chwe. Ethnic Koreans in the former USSR prefer the form Tsoi (Tsoy) especially as a transcription of the Cyrillic Цой.
Hong is the common English spelling of 홍,in hanja,it means "wide" or "big".
Yoo or Yu,or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo,is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as 유or 류in 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,with more than six hundred thousand holders,whereas Yoo accounts for about one hundred thousand.
Cho is a Korean family name,historically Royal family name in Korea. As of 2000,there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea,about 1% of the total population. The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 or 曺.
Seo is a Korean surname and Japanese surname.
Son,Sohn or Shon is a common Korean family name. It is a transliteration of the Chinese surname Sun.
Baek,also often spelled Paek,Baik,Paik,or Back is a Korean family name. In the year 2000,there were 351,275 people with this surname in South Korea. The word means the color white.
Jung is a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정",also often spelled Jeong,Chung,Joung or Jong. As of the South Korean census of 2015,there were 2,407,601 people by this name in South Korea or 4.84% of the population. The Korean family name "정" is mainly derived from three homophonous hanja. 鄭 (2,151,879),丁 (243,803) and 程 (11,683). The rest of the homophonous hanjas include:政 (139),桯 (41),定 (29),正 (22) and 情 (5).
Han is the typical romanized spelling of the Korean family name. Other alternate spellings for 한include Hahn and Haan. In hanja,it translates to "King”,“Kingdom”,“country" and/or “Korean people”. Han is the oldest name in Korea.
Ju,also spelled Joo or Chu,is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
Yang (Korean: 양) is a Korean surname. According to the 2000 South Korean Census,486,645 people in South Korea had the surname Yang.
Yun (Korean: 윤) is a family name in Korea,which means "governor". The name is sometimes also transliterated as Yoon,Yune,Yiun,or Youn. According to the 2000 census,948,600 people had the surname in South Korea. It derives from the Chinese character 尹.
Events from the year 1994 in South Korea.
Crown Princess Minhoe of the Geumcheon Kang clan,also known as Crown Princess Consort Sohyeon,was the wife of Crown Prince Sohyeon,the son of King Injo of Joseon and Queen Inyeol of the Cheongju Han clan.
