Jae-seop

Jae-seop, also spelled Jae-sup or Jae-sub, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Jae-seop
Hangul	재섭
Hanja	在涉, 材燮, and others
Revised Romanization	Jae-seop
McCune–Reischauer	Chaesŏp
IPA	[t͡ɕɛ.sʌp̚]

Hanja and meaning

There are twenty hanja with the reading "jae" and eight hanja with the reading "seop" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.^[1] Ways of writing this name in hanja include:

• 在涉 (있을 재 isseul jae "to be present"; 건널 섭 geonneol seop "to cross a stream")
• 材燮 (재목 재 jaemok jae "timber" or "talent"; 불꽃 섭 bulggot seop "blaze")

People

• Kang Jae-sup (born 1948), South Korean politician
• Byun Jae-sub (born 1975), South Korean football player

Fictional characters

• Kang Jae-sup, in 2004 South Korean television series April Kiss
• Jae-seop, in 2009 South Korean television series The Slingshot

See also

• List of Korean given names