Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names.
People
People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:
- Sim Hun (born Sim Daeseop, 1901âÂÂ1936), Korean novelist
- Isao Harimoto (born Jang Hun, 1940), Zainichi Korean baseball player
- Kim Hoon (born 1948), South Korean novelist
- Suh Hoon (born 1954), South Korean government official
- Chung Hoon (born 1969), South Korean judo practitioner
- Lee Hoon (actor) (born 1973), South Korean actor
- Hoon Lee (born 1973), American actor
- Jang Hoon (born 1975), South Korean film director
- Sung Hoon (singer, born 1980) (born 1980), South Korean singer, member boy band Brown Eyed Soul
- Jung Hoon (born 1985), South Korean football player
- Lee Hun (footballer) (born 1986), South Korean football player
Fictional characters with this name include:
As name element
From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea:
- Ji-hoon, the only name among these which has remained in the top ten during the 1990s and 2000s
- Jung-hoon (10th place in 1960, 1st place in 1970, 3rd place in 1980)
- Sang-hoon (9th place in 1960 and 1970)
- Sung-hoon (5th place in 1970, 6th place in 1980)
Given names containing this morpheme include:
See also
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