• Source: Cheon (Korean surname)

Cheon, also spelled Chun or Chon, is an uncommon Korean surname. It is written with either of two hanja:

Ilcheon Cheon (千) meaning "thousand". This is the more common character, used as a surname by 103,811 people in 32,229 households in South Korea, according to the 2000 census.
Haneul Cheon (天), meaning "heaven". The 2000 census found 8,416 people in 2,668 households who used this character to write their surname.
In a study by the National Institute of Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 50% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Cheon in their passports, while 42% spelled it Chun, and 3.5% spelled it Chon. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 4.5%) included Choun and the Yale romanization Chen.
People with this surname include:




Entertainment


Chun Bo-geun (born 2002), South Korean actor
Chun Ho-jin (born 1960), South Korean actor
Chun Jung-myung (born 1980), South Korean actor
Chun Myung-hoon (born 1978), South Korean singer, rapper, actor
Chun Soo-yeon (stage name Song Ji-hyo, born 1981), South Korean actress
Chun Woo-hee (born 1987), South Korean actress




Sportspeople


Cheon Eun-bi (born 1992), South Korean field hockey player who competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics
Cheon Eun-suk (born 1969), South Korean basketball player
Cheon Hui-ju (born 1975), South Korean speed skater
Cheon In-sik (born 1968), South Korean sprint canoer
Cheon Ju-hyeon (born 1977), South Korean speed skater
Cheon Min-ho (born 1987), South Korean sport shooter
Cheon Seong-tae (born 1943), South Korean rower
Cheon Seul-ki (born 1989), South Korean field hockey player who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics




Writers


Cheon Myeong-kwan (born 1964), South Korean novelist
Cheon Sang-byeong (1930–1993), South Korean poet
Cheon Un-yeong (born 1971), South Korean writer of short stories
Cheon Yang-hee (born 1942), South Korean poet




Other


Cheon Ho-sun (born 1962), South Korean politician
Cheon Jinwoo (born 1962), South Korean professor of nanomedicine
Cheon Jun-ho (born 1971), South Korean politician
Cheon Jung Hee (born 1969), South Korean mathematician
Mina Cheon (born 1973), South Korean-born American artist
Taksu Cheon (born 1958), Japanese physicist




See also


List of Korean family names
Yeongyang Cheon clan




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar nama keluarga Korea
• Cheon (Korean surname)
• List of Korean surnames
• Um (Korean surname)
• Ji (Korean name)
• Jeon (surname)
• Chun
• Kim Ŭngu
• Hong (Korean surname)
• Ha (Korean surname)
• List of monarchs of Korea