Hae-seong

Not to be confused with Hye-sung, a similarly-pronounced Korean given name.

Hae-seong, also spelled Hae-sung, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning varies based on the hanja used. There are 23 hanja with the reading "hae" and 27 hanja with the reading "seong" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.^[1]

Hae-seong
Hangul	해성
Hanja	海成 and others
Revised Romanization	Hae-seong
McCune–Reischauer	Haesŏng

People with this name include:

• Jung Hae-seong (born 1958), South Korean football manager
• Song Hae-sung (born 1964), South Korean film director and screenwriter
• Kook Hae-seong (born 1989), South Korean baseball outfielder
• Kwak Hae-seong (born 1991), South Korean football player

See also

• List of Korean given names

References

1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 2013-10-17.