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17 unusual facts about hangul


Choi Chung-Min

Choi Chung-Min (Hangul: 최정민, Hanja: 崔貞敏, 30 August 1930 – 8 August 1983) is a retired South Korean football player and football manager.

Comparative military ranks of Korea

The ranks of all three branches (the Army, Navy, and Air Force) of the South Korean Armed Forces share the same titles in Hangul.

Geum-ran

She has once worked as a spy in Dongmyeong-Cheonjedan (Hangul: 동명천제단) a group made to defeat Tang and Khitans, pretending that she cannont speak.

Happy Face Entertainment

Happy Face Entertainment (Hangul: 해피페이스엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean entertainment agency established by Ahn Myung-won and Kim Young-deuk, more known as the music production duo E-Tribe, on August 15, 2008.

Hwan-Kil Yuh

Hwan-Kil Yuh (Hangul: 류환길, Hanja: 柳煥吉) (September 23, 1962 – April 21, 2009) was a boxer from South Korea.

Kim Hyon-hui

Kim Hyun-Hui (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김현희, Hanja: 金賢姬; born January 27, 1962), also known as Ok Hwa, is a former North Korean agent, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people.

Korean nobility

Wang (Hangul: 왕; Hanja: 王), or king, was a Chinese royal style used in many states rising from the dissolution of Gojoseon, Buyeo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla and Goryeo.

Princess Hwawan

Princess Hwawan (Hangul: 화완옹주, Hanja: 和缓翁主) (9 March 1738 - 10 June 1808) was a Joseon princess and the third daughter of King Yeongjo of Joseon.

The couple also had one adoptive son, Jeong Hugyeom (Hangul: 정후겸, Hanja: 鄭厚謙) (1749-1776).

She died in 1808, on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month in the eighth year of the reign of King Sunjo of Joseon, in Paju (Hangul: 파주, Hanja: 坡州).

Queen Munjeong

Queen Munjeong (Hangul: 문정왕후, Hanja: 文定王后) (1 February 1502 – 29 December 1565) was the wife of King Jungjong of Joseon.

R League

Korea Professional Football Reserve League (Hangul: R리그), or R League for short, is the league for reserve teams of the top football clubs in South Korea.

Republic of Korea Air Force Education and Training Command

Republic of Korea Air Force Education and Training Command (AFETC, Hangul: 공군 교육사령부, Hanja: 空軍 敎育司令部), located in Jinju, was established 1973.

Shin Ki-ha

Shin Ki-ha (Korean Hangul: 신기하, Hanja: 辛基夏, RR: Sin Gi-ha, M-R: Sin Kiha, died on August 6, 1997), was a four-term South Korean lawmaker and former parliamentary leader of National Congress for New Politics.

Temple of King Dongmyeong

The Temple of King Dongmyeong (Hangul: 동명왕 신사, Hanja: 東明王 神祠), also known as the Temple of Jumong (Hangul: 주몽사, Hanja: 朱蒙祠), was a shamanistic temple dedicated to King Dongmyeong of Goguryeo, the founder of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.

The Hannara Party

The Hannara Party (Hangul:한나라당, Grand National Party) (March to 11th of April 2012)

UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize

The Prize honours the outstanding contribution made to literacy by Sejong the Great (1397 - 1418/1450) who created the Korean alphabet Hangul.


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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.

Aphae Bridge

Aphae Bridge(in Hangul:압해대교, in Hanja:押海大橋) connects Mokpo and Aphae island of Sinan county of South Jeolla province, South Korea.

Bitgoeul-daero

It opened on December 29, 2004 and the name was Sendai-ro Road(Hangul : 센다이로, Hanja or Japanese : 仙臺路), to celebrate forming a sister city between Gwangju, Korea and Sendai, Japan.

Crayon Pop

Crayon Pop (Hangul: 크레용팝) is a five-member South Korean girl group formed in 2012 under Chrome Entertainment.

Daehyeon Elementary School

Daehyeon Elementary School (Hangul: 대현초등학교) is a public elementary school located in Jukjeon-dong, Suji-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Festivals of Korea

The most popular dish on the Sambok is the Samgyetang (Hangul: 삼계탕) which is make of a whole young chicken and Insam (Hangul: 인삼, Korean ginseng).

Francis Hong Yong-ho

Francis Hong Yong-ho (Korean: 홍용호 프란치스코, 洪龍浩 프란치스코) (born 12 October 1906 – death unknown, but acknowledged in June 2013) was a Roman Catholic prelate who was imprisoned by the communist regime of Kim Il-sung in 1949 and later disappeared.

Heishui Mohe

The Heishui Mohe or Heuksu Malgal also called Black-River Mohe (黑水靺鞨; Hangul: 흑수말갈; pinyin: Hēishuǐ Mòhé; Jurchen/manchu: sahaliyan i aiman 薩哈廉部), were the most feared among the Mohe tribes.

Hejiang Province

Heishui Mohe (Hanja/Hanzi: 黑水靺鞨;; pinyin: Hēishuǐ Mòhé; Hangul: 흑수말갈; RR: Heuksu Malgal) roughly between the north of Hejiang Province (Shuangyashan, Jiamusi, Hegang and Yichun) and the south of actual Khabarovsk Krai (Bikin, Vyazemsky, Lazo and Khabarovsk neighbourhood).

HLKV-AM

HLKV-AM (Hangul : MBC 중파라디오 Hanja : MBC 中波放送) also known as MBC 900AM is a general (News, Current affairs, Sports, Drama and K-pop) radio station of the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation.

Hwaom

The greatest lasting impact of the Huayan school was to be seen in Korea, where it was transmitted by Uisang (hangul:의상대사 625-702), who had been, along with Fazang, a student of Zhiyan.

Hyojong of Joseon

150 Joseon musketeers, along with 3,000 Manchus, met Russian army at the Battle of Hutong (Hangul : 호통 Hanja : 好通), present-day Yilan), which was won by the Qing-Joseon allied forces.

Hyundai Excel

The Hyundai Excel (Hangul:현대 엑셀), also known as the Hyundai Pony, Hyundai Presto and the Mitsubishi Precis, was the first front wheel drive car produced by Hyundai.

Kashmir stag

Shortly before the expedition was mounted, Fiona Guinness and Tim Clutton-Brock, both noted deer experts, had visited Kashmir and had gathered some useful field data, which confirmed that Hangul numbers were at a dangerously low level.

Lunafly

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

Milmyeon

Milmyeon(hangul:밀면, Mil-myeon, meanding the flour noodle) is a Korean dish of long and thin noodles similar to Naengmyun, representing the dises of Busan.

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.

Namsan

Namsan or Nam-san, literally "South Mountain" (Korean- Hangul: 남산 Hanja: 南山) is a common name for Korean mountains and hills.

Origin of hangul

If Ledyard is correct, the graphic base of hangul is part of the great family of alphabets that spread from the Phoenician alphabet, through Aramaic, Brāhmī, and Tibetan.

Pokpung-ho

The P'okp'ung-ho or spelled Pokpung-ho (Chosŏn'gŭl: 폭풍호; Hanja: 暴風虎), which means "Storm Tiger" in Korean, is a North Korean main battle tank developed in the 1990s.

Queen Hyoui

Lady Lee of the Jeonju Lee clan (Hangul: 전주 이씨, Hanja: 全州 李氏); sixth daughter of Yi Jeong-han (Hangul: 이정한, Hanja: 李挺漢) (25 September 1601 – 30 August 1671), a member of the Joseon royal family

Spy Girl

Spy Girl (Hangul: 그녀를 모르면 간첩; RR: Geunyeoreul moreumyeon gancheop; lit. "You Don't Know She's a Spy") is a 2004 South Korean film starring Kim Jung-hwa and Gong Yoo.

Tarsar Lake

The basin of Tarsar and the adjoining Dachigam National Park constitute one of the most important habitats of the Kashmir stag (hangul), ibex, musk deer, snow leopard, Himalayan brown bear and in the higher reaches, the golden marmot.

Umbilicaria esculenta

It is called iwatake (kanji: 岩茸 or 石茸) in Japanese and seogi (hangul: 석이; hanja: 石耳; literally "stone ear" or "rock ear") in Korean.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은? - Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?) (1989) is an award-winning South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Yellow Hair

Yellow Hair (노랑머리 Norang Meori) is a 1999 South Korean film, written and directed by Kim Yu-min, and starring former child actress Lee Jae-eun.

Yeon Ja-yu

Yeon Ja-yu (Hangul: 연자유, Hanja: 淵子遊, ?-?) was the Magniji (Prime Minister) of Goguryeo during its waning days, and was the grandfather of Yeon Gaesomun, who was Dae Magniji and dictator of Goguryeo before its fall.

Yoon Jang-ho

Yoon Jang-ho (Hangul: 윤장호; Hanja: 尹章豪; September 21, 1980 – February 27, 2007) was a staff sergeant (posthumous) serving as an English translator in Afghanistan as a member of the Task Force Dasan, a dispatched engineering unit of the Republic of Korea Army.