Tae-young

Tae-young is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "tae" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.^[1]

Tae-young
Hangul	태영
Hanja	泰泳, 泰榮, 泰映, 泰英, and others
Revised Romanization	Tae-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	T'aeyŏng

People with this name include:

Entertainers

• Yoon Tae-young (born 1974), South Korean actor
• Ki Tae-young (born Kim Yong-woo, 1978), South Korean actor
• Son Tae-young (born 1980), South Korean actress

Politicians and public policy figures

• Ham Tae-young (1873–1954), leader of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, later a South Korean politician
• Lee Tai-young (1914–1988), South Korea's first female lawyer
• Kim Tae-young (military) (born 1949), South Korean male general, later Minister of Defense

Sportspeople

• Kim Tae-young (footballer, born 1970), South Korean football manager and former player
• Taiei Kin (born 1970), Korean-Japanese light heavyweight karateka, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
• Lee Tea-young (born 1977), South Korean handball player
• Han Tae-young (born 1979), South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler
• Yang Tae-young (born 1980), South Korean gymnast
• Kim Tae-young (footballer, born 1982), South Korean footballer
• Kim Tae-young (footballer, born 1987), South Korean footballer

Fictional characters

• Tae Young, character in American film Turning Red
• Tae-young, character in South Korean film Cart
• Tae-young, character in South Korean television series He Who Can't Marry
• Tae-young, character in South Korean television series My Husband Got a Family

See also

• List of Korean given names
• Richard Rutt (1925–2011), English Roman Catholic missionary in South Korea, who used the Korean name No Taeyŏng