In-sook

In-sook, also spelled In-suk or Insook, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 29 hanja with the reading "in" and 13 hanja with the reading "sook" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.^[1] In-sook was the eighth-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1950.^[2]

In-sook
Hangul	인숙
Hanja	仁淑 and others
Revised Romanization	In-suk
McCune–Reischauer	Insuk
IPA	[insʰuk̚]

People with this name include:

• Royal Noble Consort Wonbin Hong (1766 – 1779), Korean concubine posthumously titled In-suk
• Tak In-suk (born 1949), North Korean speed skater
• Lee In-sook (born 1950), South Korean volleyball player
• Insook Baik (born 1950/1951), South-Korean born American gas station owner
• Ahn In-sook (born 1952), South Korean actress
• Insook Bhushan (born Na Insook, 1952), South Korean-born American table tennis player
• Hwang In-suk (born 1958), South Korean poet
• Insook Choi (born 1962), South Korean-born American composer
• Kim Insuk (born 1963), South Korean writer
• Kwon In-suk (born 1964), South Korean labour organiser
• Guk In-suk (born 1965), South Korean rower

See also

• List of Korean given names