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My Name [2] (Korean: 마이 네임) is a 2021 South Korean action crime thriller television series directed by Kim Jin-min and starring Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, and Ahn Bo-hyun. The series revolves around a woman who joins a gang to avenge her father's death and then becomes the gang's mole inside the police force. [ 3 ]
Korean ( South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [ a][ 2] It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea .
Romanization of Korean. The romanization of Korean ( Korean : 로마자 표기법; RR : romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.
Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong ( Korean : 성명; Hanja : 姓名 ), seongham ( 성함; 姓銜 ), or ireum ( 이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is no space ...
This is a list of Korean given names by type. Most Korean given names consist of two Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja. There are also names with more than two syllables, often from native Korean vocabulary. Finally, there are a small number of one-syllable names.
Woo, also spelled Wu, or U, is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. [1] As a given name the meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 64 hanja with the reading "woo" [2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people (about 1 in every 60 South Koreans) applied to change their names; 730,277 were approved. In 2010, 552 men changed their name to Min-jun, and 1,401 women changed their name to Seo-yeon. [1]