Please give me some male Korean names, plus some Korean surnames.?

Question

And can someone tell me about Korean naming conventions, e.g. in Japan, where people have their surnames first.

Answer 1

kim, lee, park, chung,
those are the four most common korean last names in korea, in order
last names are usually one letter(syllable) long, but there are some with two letters
last names always come before the given name
given names tend to be two letters(syallable) long, thus making common length of names as three, but there are some given names that are one syllable or three, or even four.
i once heard about a child named after the east sea ( better known in the world as sea of japan) so his name was kim-dong-hae-ba-dah. that's five syllables

these last names were bestowed to people who have done a "great" work for the country in the "three kingdom era" or the sam-gok-shi-dae. the "common" people did not have surnames. having a surname back then was a great honor

most surnames origins, or the first person to have the name can be traced back to china or other parts of asia.
for example the first person with surname "sung" was supposibly fifth son of a chinese emperor.

to a foreigner, having so many people with same last names might be baffling.
but most of the surnames have different ways it is written in "hanja" or chinese characters. most surnames are based upon chinese characters. it it just the same pronunciation, for example "kim" that has numerous different chinese character roots

these different chinese roots means that the members are of different families. to simplify things, surnames are sometimes addes with the place of oirigin to clearfy the family.

but there are some surnames, such as "sung" and "eo" that are only one of one family. thus there are less people with these last names

wiht the different chinese characters with same last names, there are different meanings with the last name. for example, one of the "kim" means " gold mountain" while other means something else

for the given names, there is a tradition called "dol rim" which is giving a same chinese character for each generation. this allows members of the family to know their generations or the other members of their generation right off the bat. this tradition was tradiitonaly onyl for the males in the family, but now days, there it is used for females also. the tradition has been completely dropped for some families.
example:
my brother's generation of my family has the letter " taek".
my dad's generation has "jong"
my cousins generation in my mom's side have "suo"

there are some parents who prefer names that have no chinese letter counterparts, and use pure korean words such as " bah-dah" which means ocean.

there are some families who have a log of all of the members of the family. these traditionally only had males but now some put females in too.

for more (and more organized) info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_surnames

Answer 2

Here are some male Korean names:
Chul Soo
Min Soo
Chang Hwan
Sang Hyun
Sang Chul
Min Hyuck
Hyuck Joo
Do Bin
Sang Min
And Here are some Korean surnames:
Kim (most popular)
Lee
Lim
Jung
Park
Ko
Baek
Na
Korean naming conventions:
They say Surname first, and then First Name.
Usually Surnames are one-syllables, and First Name is two-syllables, making a total of three syllables.

Answer 3

As to surnames, there is an old saying, that if you throw a rock off Namsan, you will hit a Kim, Pak, or Yi. Another common surname is Choi.

The family name goes first, then the first given name and the second given name. Traditionally, the second given name might be common among brothers and sisters of the same generation.

For example, there might be two sisters named "KIM MiSuk" and "KIM SonSuk".

As an aside, the former President/Dictator Pak ChungHee had given names more common for a girl than a boy.

Today, some of these conventions are going away. Especially entertainers may use only a family name and one given name. Also, the "generational" second given name is much less common than in the past.

Answer 4

names
Sang Won
Tae Won
Han jin
Sei Hoon
Jung Hwan
Jun Hyun
Won Suk
Jeong Jo
surnames
Kim
Park
Lee
Choi
Cho
Ho
Moon
Kang
Shin
Jang

Answer 5

In korean, people say your surname first, like japanese.
common surnames are kim, lee (which is actually pronounced as ee in korean), park (which is more pronounced like bahk, the 'k' at the end being pronounced lightly), choi, jin, shin, kang, etc. I don't know that many male korean names, but some are: Minsu, Yunho, Jinsun (jeen-soon), etc.

Answer 6

The most popular Korean male name I've run into through teaching and studying taekwondo is Kim Min Su. 김민수.

Answer 7

The three biggest family names in South Korea are -

Kim
Pak (or Park)
Yi (pronounced E, or Lee)

The female, when she marries, her family name does not change to her husband's name. She keeps her family name.

However, children born have the family name of their father.

Answer 8

sun beom
sung hyun
sung min

surnames:
yun
lim
kim
yeon
park

Answer 9

You got a lot of names to choose from. But my favourite is Jun-Oh or Juno.

Answer 10

Xiao Xing Tsung