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  "thread": {
    "id": 469,
    "subject": "Kim Lee Soong",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-04-03T02:12:46+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-03T02:12:46+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0705@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "C R Culver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-03T02:12:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Kim Lee Soong",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Friends,\n\nI made a query on sci.lang about any meaning of \"Kim Lee Soong\" and this is\nwhat was responded:\n\n\"C R Culver (crculver at aol.com) wrote:\n: I'm wondering if the Korean name \"Kim Lee Soong\" or any word out of it has a\n: definite meaning in Korean.\n\nAll three parts have \"definite meaning\" in Chinese when written in, \nand read as, Chinese.  Most educated Koreans can associate the same\nmeanings with the Sino-Korean provided they know the Chinese \ncharacters.\n\n\"Kim\" also has definite meaning in a name context as virtually \n\"the\" Korean surname.  It was normally written (and largely still\nis) with a Chinese character read \"kum\" in Sino-Korean with the \nmeaning 'gold.'\n\nProbably someone with enough experience at Korean names could \nmake good guess about the \"Lee\" and \"Soong.\"  But I don't think\nit's possible to be certain without seeing them in Chinese, and\nnowadays some names may not even be associated with Chinese \ncharacters for all I know.  I should have left this for Patrick\nChew to answer, perhaps.\n\nBart Mathias\"\n\nI guess Wolfe picked KLS 'cause it was a common Korean name, and not because\nof any meaning. Still, perhaps there is mythological significance to the name.\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html"
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