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This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (김), followed by Lee (이) and Park (박). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.
Ban Ki-moon in Davos, Switzerland – the usual presentation of Korean names in English, as shown here, is to put the surname first (Ban is the surname) In English-language publications, including newspapers, Korean names are usually written in the original order, with the surname first and the given name last.
According to the 2000 South Korean census, there were 54,779 people in 16,952 households with the surname spelled Do in Revised Romanization of Korean. [1] In a study based on a sample of applications for South Korean passports in 2007, 86.9% chose to spell it as Do, 9.7% as Doh, and 1.1% as Toh. [2] Đỗ or Do, a Vietnamese surname; Do ...
Park (Korean: 박, Korean pronunciation:), also spelled as Pak or Bak, is the third-most common surname in Korea, [1] 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". [2]
Simple English; Svenska; ... Pages in category "Korean-language surnames" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total.
No hyphen or space in the surname. Do not capitalize after the hyphen. For the surname, check the surname table below. If the surname is in the table, use the spelling given in the table. If not in the table, romanize using RR. Keep in mind § Strict romanization vs. naming conventions. Example: 박복남 → Park Bok-nam, Bak Bong-Nam, Park ...
The 2005 law had been in effect eight years when Chun got his first call about it — from a young Korean American whose scholarship offer to a South Korean university had been canceled after his ...
Lee, I, or Yi (이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population. [1] Historically, 李 was written as Ni (니) [2] in Korea.