Hoon (Korean name)

People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include: • Sim Hun (born Sim Daeseop, 1901–1936), 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: • Jhun Hoon, character in 1990s and 2000s video game series The King of Fighters ==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: • Byung-hoon • Chang-hoon • Do-hun • Dong-hoon • Ji-hoon • Jong-hoon • Jung-hoon • Kwang-hoon • Myung-hoon • Sang-hoon • Seung-hoon • Se-hun • Sung-hoon • Young-hoon ==See also==