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Alexander Lee Eusebio

Alexander Lee Eusebio (Hangul: 알렉산더 이 유세비오; born on July 29, 1988 in Hong Kong), most well known as Alexander (Hangul: 알렉산더) or Xander, is a Hong Kong-born South Korean-Macanese singer, rapper, host and entertainer, mainly active in South Korea.

Brown Eyed Girls discography

The discography of South Korean girl group Brown Eyed Girls consists of five studio albums, three extended plays and seventeen singles.

Carlos Eduardo Castro da Silva

Since he played for South Korean side Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in 2003, Cadu has played for many foreign clubs including Germinal Beerschot in Belgium, União Leiria in Portugal, Hatta Club in the U.A.E. and Bnei Sakhnin FC in Israel.

Chocolate Love

"Chocolate Love" is a song recorded separately by South Korean girl groups Girls' Generation and f(x) as promotional singles for LG Cyon's New Chocolate Phone.

Choi Doo-Ho

Choi Doo-Ho (born April 6, 1991), often anglicized to Doo Ho Choi, is an South Korean mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in their Featherweight division.

Daewoo Precision Industries USAS-12

It turned out that the only maker that agreed to produce this weapon was the South Korean company Daewoo Precision Industries, a part of the high-tech Daewoo conglomerate.

Fareez Farhan

Coming on for Gombak's South Korean striker Chang Jo-Yoon in the 88th minute, the teenage forward became the youngest player since Hariss Harun to make his debut in the S.League.

Girls' Generation Japan 3rd Tour 2014

Girls' Generation Japan 3rd Tour 2014 is the upcoming third Japanese concert tour by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation to promote their third Japanese album, Love & Peace.

Hyun Jin Moon

Moon is best known for taking part in the 1988 and 1992 summer Olympic Games as a member of the South Korean equestrian team.

Ianis Zicu

In late December 2011, it was revealed that Zicu had been transferred to South Korean football club Pohang Steelers, signing a two-year deal with an option for a fourth year (a two-year extension) for an undisclosed fee, though media reports estimated it to be €2.3 million.

Kevin Song

Kevin Song (born in South Korea) is a South Korean professional poker player who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in poker tournaments since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are 29 cashes at the World Series of Poker including winning the 1997 World Series of Poker $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em event.

Linda Linda Linda

The film was directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and stars Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine as the band members, and Bae Doona as a South Korean exchange student.

Moon Seon-Min

Moon "Moonie" Seon-Min (16 November 1992) is a South Korean footballer currently playing for Östersunds in the Swedish Superettan.

My Face for the World to See

Although many transgendered individuals have achieved some success today, Israeli Pop star Dana International and South Korean pop singer Harisu, there is as yet no major transsexual or transgendered star in the film industry.

Oh! / All My Love Is For You

"Oh! / All My Love is for You" is the fifth Japanese single by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.

T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box

T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box (stylized as T-ARA JAPAN TOUR 2012~Jewelry box~) is the first Japan nationwide concert tour by South Korean girl group T-ara, in support of their first Japanese studio album, Jewelry Box (2012).

Type Control

Type Control (sometimes titled Type Control yongshin) is the debut studio album of South Korean voice actress and recording artist Lee Yong-shin.

U-KISS discography

The discography of South Korean boy group U-KISS consists of five studio albums, twelve extended plays, twenty four singles, five video albums and twenty three music videos.

Yono-class submarine

A Yono class submarine is thought to have fired the torpedo attack which sank a South Korean Pohang-class corvette, the ROKS Cheonan on March 26, 2010 in South Korean waters.


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1492 Pictures

In February 2011, the company bought by the rights to South Korean comedy film Hello Ghost starring Cha Tae-hyun and is scheduled to remake it.

Absolute Boyfriend

A 13-episode Taiwanese adaptation aired in 2012 under the title Absolute Darling (絕對達令 Jue Dui Darling), and plans are underway for a South Korean adaptation.

Baik Tae-ung

Baik was a legal advisor for the South Korean Delegation in the 56th United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and has worked for Human Rights Watch in New York as a legal adviser.

Byung-chul

Kim Byong-Cheol, South Korean taekwondo practitioner, gold medalist at the 1992 Olympics

Choe Chiwon

:Not to be confused with the South Korean singer, Choi Siwon.

Do-hun

Park Do-Hun (born 1964), South Korean former handball player

Doo-Ri Chung

At the state's dinner honoring South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his wife, Kim Yoon-ok on October 13, Michelle Obama joined her Korean guests with a beautiful asymmetrical purple dress designed by Doo-Ri Chung.

Edwin Q. White

He was sent to Seoul to help the AP's South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan.

Eric Rigler

He has been featured playing Great Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes and tin whistle on numerous movie soundtracks, including Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Robots, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, DreamWorks's The Prince of Egypt, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and critically acclaimed South Korean TV series Jewel in the Palace.

Four Asian Tigers

Confucian seminars were offered by South Korean companies like Hyundai for company management.

General Trias International FC

General Trias International FC is a Filipino association football club composed wholly South Korean players based in Gen. Trias, Cavite and a member of Cavite Football Association.

Gongju

On August 11, 2004, the South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan announced that the country's capital will be moved from Seoul to Gongju (approximately 120 km south of Seoul) and Yeongi commencing in 2007.

Hee-jung

Joo Hee-Jung (born 1980), South Korean male professional basketball player

Hee-kyung

Park Hui-Gyeong (born 1979), South Korean male fencer who competed in the 2004 Olympics

Ho-jin

Seo Ho-Jin (born 1983), South Korean short track speed skater

Hwang Jini

Novelizations of her life include a 2002 treatment by North Korean writer Hong Sok-jung (which became the first North Korean novel to win a literary award, the Manhae Prize, in the South) and a 2004 bestseller by South Korean writer Jeon Gyeong-rin.

Hyuk

Hyuk Shin (born 1985), South Korean-born American music producer

Hyundai BlueOn

The pre-production testing model was unveiled in Seoul in September 2010, when the first of 30 units were delivered to South Korean government agencies for field testing.

Internet in South Korea

The ex-CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, made a negative remark on the South Korean internet environment for falling "a little bit behind" due to governmental regulations during a conference with Choi See-Joong, chairman of Korea Communications Commission, and President Park Geun hye

Jang Gil-su

In a letter sent to South Korean Ambassador to the US Yang Sung-chul on August 13, 2002, Senator Sam Brownback, supported by Senator Edward Kennedy, invited teenage defector Jang Kil-soo and his family to a photograph exhibition and reception in their honor to be held in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in early September, and the senators urged the South Korean government to allow Jang to visit it.

Ji-hoon

Seo Ji-Hun (born 1985), South Korean professional StarCraft player

Ji-tae

Yoo Ji-tae (born 1976), South Korean actor and film director

Kamo, New Zealand

Park Kyung, a rapper and composer from South Korean boy group Block B, attended Kamo High School.

Kang Yong-suk

He later sued South Korean comedian Choi Hyo-jong for "disrespecting the National Assembly" in a skit in Gag Concert.

Ki-nam

Nam Gi-nam (born 1942), South Korean film and cartoon director

Kim Tae-Jin

Kim Tae-Jin (goalkeeper), a South Korean football goalkeeper who played for Daegu FC

Kim Yong-ik

From 1957 to 1964, Kim taught in South Korean universities including Ewha Womans University University and Korea University.

Kun-woo

Kim Kun-Woo (born 1980), South Korean track and field athlete

Lavochkin La-11

On November 30, 1951, 16 La-11 fighter pilots of the 4th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) were escorting 9 Tu-2 PVA bombers to bomb the South Korean island of Taehwa-do (대화도/大和島), in the Pansong archipelago.

Lee So-yeon

Lee Si-yeon (born 1979), South Korean transsexual actress and model

Luke DeVere

On 18 January 2011, it was announced by Brisbane Roar coach Ange Postecoglou on Fox Sports FC that DeVere would be leaving the club on a transfer to South Korean K-League club Gyeongnam FC.

Lunafly

Lunafly (Hangul: 루나플라이), sometimes stylized as LUNAFLY, is a South Korean 3-member group under Nega Network.

Mark MacKinnon

MacKinnon has interviewed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as King Abdullah II of Jordan and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

Min-hyuk

Lee Minhyuk (born 1990), South Korean singer, member of boy band BtoB

Moon Shin

Moon Shin(in Hangul:문신, in Hanja:文信, January 16, 1923 ~ May 24, 1995) was a South Korean painter and sculptor whose childhood name was Moon ahn-shin.

North Korean abductions of South Koreans

In February 1978, South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her film director husband Shin Sang-ok were kidnapped in Hong Kong and taken to Pyongyang.

The ex-husband of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, himself a suspected abductee from the South, was allowed to meet his South Korean mother in 2006, but Yokota's parents called the meeting a publicity stunt by Pyongyang, meant to isolate his daughter from her Japanese family, as the man has now remarried a native North Korean and has a son with her.

Oliver Bozanic

In June 2013, Bozanic was among three players to be linked with Asian clubs, having been attracted by South Korean sides Busan IPark and Pohang Steelers.

OPLAN 5029

Discussions in October between US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and South Korean Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee over the planned transition of wartime operations to South Korean forces also included continued formulation of an operation plan for a North Korean collapse, after a proposal made in an earlier meeting between the American and South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

Born in England of South Korean parents, Hyung-ki Joo began his formal training in the UK at the Menuhin School with Peter Norris and Seta Tanyel and later earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Nina Svetlanova.

Sang-woo

Sin Sang-woo (born 1987), South Korean professional ice hockey winger

Sanulrim

He was one of the antagonists in the hit South Korean medical drama White Tower, and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Coffee Prince.

Shirane-class destroyer

On 27 October 2009, the JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship under the Kanmonkyo Bridge in the Kanmon Straits off the coast of Japan.

Sung-jae

Kim Sung-Jae (born 1976), South Korean retired football player

Yodok concentration camp

South Korean citizens Shin Suk-ja and her daughters Oh Hae-won and Oh Kyu-won (in Yodok since 1987, when the daughters were ages 9 and 11) were imprisoned because her husband Oh Kil-nam did not return from a stay abroad.

Yoon-sung

There are 15 hanja with the reading "Yoon" and 27 hanja with the reading "Sung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

Young-ja

Kim Young-Ja (born 1949), South Korean former volleyball player