| Kyung-ok | |
| Hangul | 경옥 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 慶 玉 and others |
| Revised Romanization | Gyeong-ok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kyŏng'ok |
Kyung-ok, also spelled Kyong-ok, is a Korean feminine given name. [1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and five hanja with the reading "ok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. [2] Kyung-ok was the tenth-most popular name for baby girls born in South Korea in 1950. [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.
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.
People with this name include:
- Kang Kyung-ok (born 1965), South Korean manhwa artist
- Kim Kyung-ok (born 1983), South Korean judoka
- Kim Kyong-ok, North Korean politician, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea
- Ri Kyong-ok, North Korean judoka, represented North Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Kang Kyung-ok is a Manhwa artist whose work "It's Two People" was adopted into the film Someone Behind You, she also has work published by Netcomics.
Kim Kyung-Ok is a South Korean judoka who competes in the women's 52 kg category. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she finished in 5th place. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the second round by Priscilla Gneto, who then also defeated her in the repechage round.
The Central Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (CMC) is an organ of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) which is responsible for coordinating the Party organizations within the Korean People's Army (KPA). One of the CMC’s primary functions is to authorize defense and munitions spending and product orders, and to determine how natural resources and products from military-controlled production units are earmarked and distributed domestically and for sale abroad. According to the WPK Charter, the CMC directs WPK activities in the KPA and is chaired by the WPK Chairman. The CMC relies on a number of organizations to carry out its mandate, including the KPA General Political Department, the WPK Military Department, and the WPK Machine-Building Department. The CMC also uses the WPK Military Affairs Department to transmit guidance and indoctrination of North Korea's reserve military training units.
