Cho (Korean surname)
Korean family name (조) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with the surname 초, which is also transliterated as "Cho" or "Ch'o".
Cho (Korean: 조, sometimes written as Jo) is a Korean family name, historically Royal family name in Korea[citation needed]. As of 2000, there were 1,347,730 people by this surname in South Korea, about 1% of the total population.[1] The name may represent either of the Hanja 趙 or 曺.[2]