Dong-chul

Dong-chul is a Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 24 hanja with the reading "dong" and 11 hanja with the reading "chul" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.^[1]

Dong-chul
Hangul	동철
Hanja	東喆 and others
Revised Romanization	Dong-cheol
McCune–Reischauer	Tongch'ŏl

People with this name include:

• Kim Dong Chul (businessman) (born 1953), Korean-American businessman and spy
• Shin Dong-Chul (born 1961), South Korean football player
• Brave Brothers (born Kang Dong-chul, 1979), South Korean rapper
• Kim Dong-chul (footballer) (born 1990), South Korean football player

Fictional characters with this name include:

• Jo Dong-chul from 2013 film The Suspect
• Lee Dong-chul from 2008 television series East of Eden
• Seok Dong-chul from 2017 television series Save Me

See also

• List of Korean given names