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	Wang
		Wang is a royalty rank and a surname in China and Korea.
		Wang is a Korean family name 왕 but very rare in Korea.
		However, after the Goryeo Dynasty fell, the royal Wangs changed their surname to avoid severe persecution from the subsequent Joseon Dynasty.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wang.html (425 words)

	Zhang (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The corresponding Korean surname is 장; and the corresponding Vietnamese version is "Trương".
		The surnames 莊 and 蔣 is also written as 장 in Korean, which are frequently transliterated as Jang or Chang, but the two characters are not pronounced as Zhang in Mandarin Chinese.
		Zhāng's literal translation is "to open forth", or "to spread", although its common use is a measure word for (relatively) flat objects such as paper and mattresses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhang (569 words)

	Breast- and Cervical-Cancer Screening Among Korean Women --- Santa Clara County, California, 1994 and 2002
		Results were weighted to account for the probability of selection of the respondent and for the age distribution of Korean women in Santa Clara County in the 1990 Census for the 1994 survey and in the 2000 Census for the 2002 survey.
		In 1994, 79.2% of Korean women in Santa Clara County reported having at least one routine checkup during their lifetimes, and 40.5% had routine checkups during the preceding year (Table).
		Korean women in Santa Clara County have yet to achieve the 2010 national health objectives for Pap tests and mammography screening; objectives for breast self-examinations or clinical breast examinations have not been established.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5333a4.htm (1705 words)

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		The modern demography of the Korean population is characterized by dispersion: this demography is a legacy of the policy of forced migration during the Stalin Epoch, and also by processes of migration and infiltration among the Korean Population.
		The distinguishing feature of the Korean Anthrophonomy is the existence of a from-toponimical names “bon”/ bon is connected with the place, from which the ancestors of a person ostensibly originated.
		Probably it is connected with the ancient Korean traditional of adherence to the syllable equality in the names of brothers and sisters.
	www.koryosaram.freenet.kz /update1/names.doc (2259 words)

	Writing and transcriptions (from Korean language) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		When Korean words are cited in English and other languages they are transcribed in a variety of ways, as can be seen from the spellings seen for a popular Korean surname: I, Yi, Lee, Li, Ree, Ri, Rhee, Rie, Ni, and so on.
		Korean is the official language of both South Korea (Republic of Korea) and...
		Although attacks came all along the border, the major North Korean thrust was in the west of the Korean peninsula, toward Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=75159 (789 words)

	Korean Surname - AncestorNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Korean women retain their maiden surname after they get married.
		Korean legal name, nicknames, family surname, combined names, previous names, and business signature) that contribute to your The name Korean-F creates the urge to be self-expressive and.
		Korean women retain their maiden surname after they get married 20% of the Korean population have Kim as their surname and 15% of.
	www.ancestornews.com /family-tree/korean_surname.html (556 words)

	Pyong Gap Min Paper
		Korean immigrants' active participation in an ethnic congregation contributes to their ethnicity by increasing their ethnic networks on the one hand and by helping them to preserve Korean cultural traditions on the other.
		Korean pastors often emphasize Korean values in their sermons, and this is another way Korean churches contribute to preserving Korean culture and identity.
		Korean pastors as a group seem to be more conservative than other college-educated Koreans in their attitudes toward American mass culture in general and American youth culture in particular.
	www.icasinc.org /lectures/min1.html (7565 words)

	Lee Hong Gyu - A Former Japanese Prosecution Clerk
		The Korean prisoners were interrogated by a joint team of the Suhung police and the court prosecutors.
		Lee Hong Gyu was the Korean interpreter for the Japanese detectives.
		Korean surnames are one character long whereas Japanese surnames are mostly two characters long.
	www.kimsoft.com /2002/leehonggyu.htm (2156 words)

	korean_history
		Koreans aboard the S.S. Gaelic came to work for the Hawaiian sugar plantations as “contract laborers”.
		The second wave occurred a half century later in the 1960s when U.S. immigration policy opened up to the Korean and other Asian people.The second wave of the Korean immigrants is fading away.
		Korean Americans, of which, 67°/a reside in Seattle area and 19% live in the Tacoma area.
	www.youohana.com /korean_history.html (720 words)

	News from KoreanWiz
		A fellow Korean drama addict from Singapore reports that she watches Korean dramas on 2 TV stations--Media Corporation (which is currently showing Good Bye My Love) and Channel U (which is showing Invitation with Kim Sang Kyung).
		Census figures also showed that the Korean language is spoken at home by a whopping 80.8% of the Korean-American population.
		A fellow addict from Indonesia reports that Korean TV dramas there, shown on the Phoenix Channel (a cable-TV station), are dubbed in Indonesian.
	www.koreanwiz.org /news1.html (921 words)

	HAN: "Koreans in Japan: Past and Present"
		Koreans i n the southern part of the peninsula, Kyongsang-do, Cholla-do and Cheju-do, tend ed to migrate to Japan, whereas Koreans in the northern part tended to migrate t o the former Manchuria, which is currently the northeast region of China.
		Korean intermarriages with Japanese are partly influenced by a social phen omenon that Japanese men have difficulty finding partners among young Japanese w omen.
		By definition, Koreans were Japanese citizens until the conclusion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty between the Japanese government and the Allied Nations.
	www.han.org /a/fukuoka96a.html (6195 words)

	Yun - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is one of the few names that has a "surname character" assigned to it - i.e.
		the character only has the definition "surname" while used in Korea and is only used to denote the surname.
		The Papyong Yun clan is the most noble clan in the surname; several of Papyong Yun women have become queens.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Yun (93 words)

	Wang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wang is a Korean family name 왕 but very rare inKorea.
		However, afterthe Goryeo Dynasty fell, the royal Wangs changed their surname to avoid severe persecution from the subsequent Joseon Dynasty.
		Most ofthe Japanese with such a surname are Chinese descendants.
	www.therfcc.org /wang-37453.html (360 words)

	Koreans' 'indomitable spirit' praised - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Korean Americans yesterday celebrated the passage of a century since they began their migration to America, hearing a call to leadership and assurances that their homeland would resolve peacefully a political crisis that has frayed nerves around the world.
		Earlier yesterday, the centennial festivities were launched at a ceremony in the same ballroom in which South Korean officials gave assurances that peace would prevail in the present political crisis.
		Park asked Korean Americans within the assembly for "unwavering support and continued concern," and urged them to continue their forebears' tradition of hard work and striving for excellence.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Jan/14/ln/ln09a.html (703 words)

	Behavioral Risk Factor Survey of Korean Americans -- Alameda County, California, 1994
		Compared with 1995 BRFS estimates for the total California population, the prevalences of two risk factors were lower among Korean Americans: high blood pressure (12% of Korean Americans versus 21% of all California adults) and high blood cholesterol (12% versus 19%) (Table_1).
		For example, Korean American women may be uncomfortable seeking health care from non-Korean-speaking providers and, as a result, have lower levels of breast and cervical cancer sceening.
		The use of Korean surname-based telephone lists for the sampling frame may have biased the sample: Korean Americans who resided in households without telephones, who did not list their telephone numbers, or who did not have Korean surnames were excluded from the sample.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049071.htm (1296 words)

	Japanese Surname - AncestorNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although an appears after an n in HarukaâÂÂs surname, the two sounds are not to be pronounced in also represent the surname Tenno45.
		Surname first, first name last thus, her name is presented in the Japanese standard of surname first.
		Behind the Name: K From the Irish surname ÃÂ“ Caollaidhe, which means "descendent of Caollaidhe Means "lucky son" in Japanese.
	www.ancestornews.com /family-tree/japanese_surname.html (563 words)

	Gang Kang Example (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Koreans living the the U.S. often reverse the order of their names to fit the American pattern of given name before surname.
		Another issue that degrades data quality is phonetic variations that are very common with Korean names in particular.
		Many Korean sounds can be represented in Roman letters in many different ways.
	www.las-inc.com /data-quality/gang-kang-example.shtml (127 words)

	Tsunami News for Bae, Indonesia
		Another Korean identified only by her surname Bae was pronounced missing after she was swept away in the same area.
		Another Korean identified only by her surname Bae was missing after she was...
		...four Koreans were killed, 11 missing, and 17 injured by the tsunami and earthquake...
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Bae.html (812 words)

	KVMS Report - Chapter 3
		The roll compiled for this study lists for each veteran their surname, up to three given names, Service number, date of birth, date of death, one or more ship/unit/ squadron posting and period/s of service.
		The details of all individuals identified by this process as serving aboard RN ships during operational duty in Korean waters were verified using the methods outlined earlier.
		As shown in Table 3-3, classified by first Korean service, 58 female veterans served in Korea: 34 were health professionals serving in the Army, 21 were Air Force nurses, and three were members of the Australian Red Cross.
	www.dva.gov.au /media/publicat/2003/kwmortality/Chapter_3.htm (2722 words)

	Korean Language, Etiquette and Dining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Korean names usually have three parts: the family or surname placed first, and a name identifying the generation, alternating each generation to second or third place with th given personal name.
		Korean women keep their maiden names after marriage and do not assume their husbands' surname.
		Instead they use his title, position, trade, profession, scholastic rank or some honorific form such as "teacher." Parents often are addressed as the equivalent of "Jimmy's mommy" or "Susie's daddy," rather than "Mrs.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/d-moon1/Kname.html (235 words)

	Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Friday, March 12, 2004, at 3:23 PM PT The family name of South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, whose impeachment has sparked widespread protests, sounds more like "Noh" than "Roh" when spoken aloud.
		According to the National Academy of the Korean Language, of the millions of Koreans who share the same family name as the president, 40.3 percent Romanize it as Noh, 22 percent as No, and 16.2 percent as Roh.
		The South Korean government has recently tried to overhaul and standardize the Romanization of the language, introducing a new system in 2000.
	slate.msn.com /toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2097092 (470 words)

	Internationales Forum des Jungen Films: Jokbo
		The main character, Sol, fiercely resists changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one, as is dictated by the prevailing policy.
		The conservatism of Korean society is reflected in the film's images: a man and woman never appear in the same shot and never look each other in the face when speaking.
		This isolating effect emphasizes both the alienation Koreans felt in their occupied homeland as well as the unmitigated discrimination of women prevailing in Korean tradition.
	www.fdk-berlin.de /forum?id=113&L=1&ch_lang=0 (281 words)

	Surname Directory: Asian Surname Resources
		Most Chinese names have 3 or 2 characters, with the first character being the surname and the remaining characters being the first name.
		Commoners were not allowed to use family names until after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when they were allowed to create a surname or borrow an existing one.
		Most Korean have 2 given names but some only have one....
	www.surnamedirectory.com /surname-resources-ASIAN.html (226 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		SEOUL — South Korean police have requested arrest warrants for three men they say defrauded several people in a scheme involving nonexistent gold bars they claimed a U.S. Army general acquired in Iraq, officials said Friday.
		The two men police say were his accomplices, both identified only by the common Korean surname Lee, still are on the run, said Detective Cho Yong-so of the Taegu Metropolitan Police Agency’s Investigation Division.
		According to police, the trio approached their victims with a contrived tale of intrigue involving a U.S. Army general who acquired the gold bars in Iraq, then smuggled them to his next duty station in South Korea.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=20749 (480 words)

	Sensei's Library: Names in Go / Discussion
		As for your last question: by capitalizing surnames you seem to be assuming not only that everyone has a well-defined surname, but also that this is necessarily the most significant part of their name.
		Since we are listing a variety of names here, both surname first and surname last, according to nationality, the capitalization of surnames makes it much clearer for everyone.
		Where Lee comes from is when Koreans tried to westernise themselves a little, in the same way the Japanese did, by swapping their names round to western order, the surname Yi then followed the personal names (i.e.
	senseis.xmp.net /?NamesInGo/Discussion (2918 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Board -> Chinese Last Names
		Lol, ma mom said Lin and Lim is the same surname.
		Well anyway, Korean also has last name Lim, which i think is also..a varied last name of Lam.....
		This surname is very common in South East Asia, like Singapore and Malaysia.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=576752 (1047 words)

	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Behavioral risk factors survey of Korean Americans - Alameda County, California, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Within each eligible household, Korean persons aged [is greater than or equal to] 18 years were randomly selected [4].
		An estimated 55% of participants were women, 36% were aged 18-29 years, and 20% were aged [is greater than or equal to] 50 years (mean: 37 years); 63% were married; 52% were employed; 52% were college graduates; and 48% had a household income of [is greater than or equal to] $35,000.
		The use of Korean surname-based telephone lists for the sampling frame may have biased the sample: Korean Americans who resided in households without telephones, who did not list their telephone numbers, or who did not have Korean su rnames were excluded from the sample.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_n33_v46/ai_19730573 (1156 words)

	Kang Min's name
		Korean names are not last - first - middle name.
		BUT, it should also be mentioned that there are legally recognized surnames used in Korea which have MORE THAN just a single syllable-character.
		Fyi, for the trivia buffs out there, the Sun-Woo surname originated in China and is not considered, in the strict historical sense, a Korean surname, tho obviously the surname is now officially recognized in Korea as a proper Korean surname because it's been used Korea so long.
	www.teamliquid.net /forum/viewmessage-5421.html (961 words)

	Jim Park : The Blog: 24/06/05 Another Famous Park
		Apart from my surname routinely being misheard as "Clark" by countless customer service representatives, it is also noted for being among the most popular names in Korea, (North and South, I believe).
		Although, in fairness I do dream quite a lot of wealth and riches, so it would have to be an astronomical sum we're talking about here, before I would categorically state that it was "undreamt of" on a purely personal level.
		The downside of all this would be that inevitably someone would see me as a phoney, a fraud and a threat to the national fabric of the Korean people, and I would likely end up being assassinated by a lone gunman working with others, (JFK satire).
	toecurler99.blogspot.com /2005/06/240605-another-famous-park.html (342 words)

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