# Kim Lee Soong *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Apr 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### C R Culver *03 Apr 1998, 02:12* Friends, I made a query on sci.lang about any meaning of "Kim Lee Soong" and this is what was responded: "C R Culver (crculver at aol.com) wrote: : I'm wondering if the Korean name "Kim Lee Soong" or any word out of it has a : definite meaning in Korean. All three parts have "definite meaning" in Chinese when written in, and read as, Chinese. Most educated Koreans can associate the same meanings with the Sino-Korean provided they know the Chinese characters. "Kim" also has definite meaning in a name context as virtually "the" Korean surname. It was normally written (and largely still is) with a Chinese character read "kum" in Sino-Korean with the meaning 'gold.' Probably someone with enough experience at Korean names could make good guess about the "Lee" and "Soong." But I don't think it's possible to be certain without seeing them in Chinese, and nowadays some names may not even be associated with Chinese characters for all I know. I should have left this for Patrick Chew to answer, perhaps. Bart Mathias" I guess Wolfe picked KLS 'cause it was a common Korean name, and not because of any meaning. Still, perhaps there is mythological significance to the name. Christopher R. Culver http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html ---