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Woo, also spelled Wu or U, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in some two-syllable Korean given names. ==Family name== As a family name, Woo may be written with either of two hanja (). Each has one ''bon-gwan'': for the former, Danyang, Chungcheongbuk-do, and for the latter, Mokcheon-eup (목천읍), Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, both in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 180,141 people with these family names. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 97.0% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Woo in their passports, while only 1.6% spelled it as Wu. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 1.4%) included U and Wo. People with these family names include: *Woo Jang-choon (1898–1959), Korean-born Japanese botanist *Woo Yong-gak (born 1929), North Korean commando held in South Korea as one of the unconverted long-term prisoners *U Tong-chuk (born 1942), North Korean politician *Woo Bum-kon (1955–1982), South Korean police officer and spree killer *Meredith Jung-En Woo (born 1958), South Korean-born American political scientist *Woo Hee-young (born 1963), South Korean footballer *Sung J. Woo (born 1971), South Korean-born American writer *Woo Sung-yong (born 1974), South Korean footballer *Woo Chul (born 1978), South Korean swimmer *Woo Sun-hee (born 1978), South Korean handball player *Woo Seung-je (born 1982), South Korean footballer *Woo Seung-yeon (1983–2009), South Korean actress *Woo Seung-jae (born 1986), South Korean wrestler *Kevin Woo (born 1991), American singer of Korean descent *Zico (rapper) (born Woo Ji-ho, 1992), South Korean rapper, member of Block B *Hyelim (full name Woo Hye-lim, born 1992), South Korean singer, member of Wonder Girls *Woo Joo-sung (born 1993), South Korean footballer *Woo Haram (born 1998), South Korean diver 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woo (Korean name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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