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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:51 pm
NamKung? ( Namgoong?)
EH? Well I asked my parents and they said it's actually a Chinese lastname...
O.o?
And Hong? It was just a drama but could have come from a real person.
Have you ever seen any strange Korean last names?
Oh yeah and Guk! ( Gook)
Soup! ?
( My cousin's last name)
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:04 pm
usually korean last name's are only one syllible.
And it may sound weird in english, but in korean it's perfectly natural.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:57 pm
if there one syallbe then probaly like Ban?
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:03 pm
hello people can you please answer me?
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:08 am
hptrbff hello people can you please answer me? no, probably not.. anyway my friend's last name is " 나 na" so when she's introducing herself it's like "hi i;m 나수경" which is like hi, i;m "i am soo kyun." lol and she keeps switching her last name xDD " na to la 나//라" she says its the same thing = =;
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:12 pm
Yeah like I can change mine from Lee to Yi which is the same thing.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:09 am
They don't sound all that weird to me. I attended an international school which had a lot of Korean students in it, and there were quite a bit of students with the last names 홍(Hong) and 창(Chang). Nevertheless, they were all Koreans. 홍 and 창 are surnames that originated in China, but eventually some Korean families adopted them.
Somehow, I don't find any Korean last names weird... because I grew up in Seoul. But if I had to choose the oddest last name, it would be 방 (Bang) and 피 (Pi, Pee... whichever spelling suits your fancy).
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:27 pm
E C H O usually korean last name's are only one syllible. And it may sound weird in english, but in korean it's perfectly natural. >.> Imma Korean. One O O percent :B Just wonderin about those names. Cause they seem weird.... Imma Kim so.....
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:15 am
Who caresabout last names. Names are names razz
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:13 pm
E C H O Yeah like I can change mine from Lee to Yi which is the same thing.
but some "Lee"'s are spelled "Rhie" because it's like a different kind of lee
-____-;;
really wierd
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:50 pm
Hong isnt so rare. I know a bunch of Hongs. My last name is Ha...thats pretty uncommon. Koh too. ive only met 2 kohs in my lifetime. o.o
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:23 pm
Well maybe Californian Koreans are all
Kims, Chois, Parks, and Shins D:
I've never seen a Hong before.
Unless they were Viet/Chinese D:
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:09 pm
As for 2 syllable and more surnames they are quite rare in both China and Korea.
Hongs are not necesseraily Chinese. Actually there are quite alot of Hongs in Seoul. King JeongJo's mother was a Hong.
Ancient Korea during the Gurgoyeo period had no last names. They were called by their given names and identified by the clan they belonged to. So it went something like: "[name of person]" of the "[clan name]".
The more common Korean surnames were derived from old families from China who came and settle in Korea. Ancient China and Korea's borders were very close so there was alot of intermixing of cultures. These families were powerful and had a lot servants and subordinates who eventaully took on the family surname.
Kim has the meaning of "Gold" in Hanja. "Lee" (pronounced Yi) has the meaning of "Scholar" and was the surname of the Joseon kings. That's why both surnames are very popular in Korea. Choi and Park were similarly very influential and powerful families in Korea.
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