Beom-seok

Beom-seok is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 13 hanja with the reading "beom" and 20 hanja with the reading "seok" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1] The name may be spelled various ways in the Roman alphabet. One customary spelling, Bum-suk, became a source of mirth to Anglophones in the 1950s and again in the 1980s, when two South Korean politicians who spelled their name that way rose to prominence.[2][3][4] As a result, other transcriptions such as Pom-sok came into wider use.[5]

Beom-seok
Hangul
범석
Hanja
範奭, 範錫, and others
Revised RomanizationBeom-seok
McCune–ReischauerPŏmsŏk

People with this name include:

  • Lee Beom-seok (prime minister) (1900–1972), Korean independence activist and later the first prime minister of South Korea from 1948 until 1950
  • Lee Beom-seok (foreign minister) (1925–1983), foreign minister of South Korea from 1982 until his death in the Rangoon bombing
  • Oh Beom-seok (born 1984), South Korean football right back (Chinese Super League)
  • Cho Beom-seok (born 1990), South Korean football midfielder (K-League Challenge)

See also

References
  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 29. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  2. Kristof, Nicholas D. (1995-12-17). "Dung! What an Unusual Name!". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
  3. Derbyshire, John (2003-04-04). "A Modest Proposal: An action item". National Review Online. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
  4. Singh, Khushwant (1991). Khushwant Singh's Joke Book. Orient Paperbacks. p. 122.
  5. Far Eastern Economic Review. 86. 1974. p. 99. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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