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Kyung-jae, Gyeong-jae, and Kyoung-jae are various Latin-alphabet spellings of a single Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and 20 hanja with the reading "jae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
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The following teams and players took part in the women's volleyball tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in Seoul.
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- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yun Gyeong-jae Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
