Her last name
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xix_azn_luv_xix — 19 years ago(July 01, 2006 10:33 AM)
it is? wait..u THINK? I want someone who knows lol
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Doctor_D — 19 years ago(July 02, 2006 03:37 AM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_(Korean_name)
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redcoyote — 19 years ago(January 09, 2007 04:50 PM)
In an interview with her at one time she mentioned there are 3 differant Park families from Korea. Apparently the name has not been Anglicized. There is also a gal on the women's tennis circut that is a Park as well. They are not related.
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ak726 — 18 years ago(April 03, 2008 08:52 PM)
Also, "Park" is not really a 100% correct pronunciation of the name in Korean. Really, it's more like "Bahk". Sometimes it's romanized as "Pak".
And by the way, "Kim" is more like "Geem" and "Lee" is more like "Eee". -
sth128 — 17 years ago(April 12, 2008 10:17 PM)
"Park", like "Lee" is a common Korean surname.
Lee is also a common Chinese surname, however due to pronunciation differences (among other things), it is mostly spelt "Li" in Chinese, thus making it look more "Asian". -
dennyden310 — 17 years ago(July 21, 2008 12:24 PM)
Park is a Korean name. 2000I have a friend who's family is from Korea and there last name is Park. There is a couple Korean major league baseball players who's last name is Park too. It's pretty common I think.
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jclarke@attglobal.net — 14 years ago(July 02, 2011 04:29 PM)
Regardless of any of it, the President of Korea from 1962-1979 was Chung-Hee Park.
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Gaimcap — 14 years ago(August 25, 2011 03:41 AM)
Park is a common Korean last name, one of the three most common in fact (I think almost half of all koreans are either Kim, Lee or Park, with the number of Kims being about equal with numbers of Lees and Parks combined) The way my mother explained once was that essentially your last name was determined by where you lived or who ruled over you and then further broken down into your identifying lineage; I think the Scottish clan system works similarly.
So (for example) Park would be the area/king, and Chungju would be the family branch (no idea what's Grace's; making that up). Furthermore first names kind of follow a similar process(much to my annoyance*) Grace's birth name for example is listed as "Jee un" I'm willing to bet that "un" is her family/generation name and that "Jee" is her unique identifier (could be the other way though shrug). If she had/has a sister her name would be something like "Yeong un"
*Somewhat personal rant: Remembering anyone's name from my korean side is a !@#! for this whitewashed multiracial; they all sound alike and, even if I can remember which one is Ju Yeong or Ju Han or Ju Bong, the use of honorifics in place of or attached to names completely screws me over because it's improper to call people by just their names in their Oldschool korean culture. Even my mother admits she doesn't know all of her brothers and sisters names (only their honorifics). GD I hate American-Koreans Even the young ones are so stubbornly ingrained in their backwards flash-frozen 1960's Korean mentality. Heck, even the older generation of Koreans FROM Korea aren't as bad as them they've moved past the 1960's (or whenever) that the new generations of7ec American-Koreans seem to be perpetuating >.>)
