Meanings of names:

• Usually the meaning of the syllable that is not the Generation Character is significant

Lee, Hyo Sang < Yi Hyo Sang 이효상 (李 孝 相 ):

Hyo (孝): filial piety
Sang (相): each other --GC

• Giving a meaning to the whole given name

Name	Meaning
Phyônghwa 평화 平和	peace
Manpok 만복 萬福	All blessings
Yôngwôn 영원 永遠	for ever
Ûnhye 은혜 恩惠	grace
Yerin 藝隣	Neiboring Art

 

• Due to the structure of Korean given names with a generation character, the meanig of one's name usually comes from a single character:
  
  

  Male names:	Young 榮 ‘glory’, Sôk 石 ‘stone’,  Thae 太 ‘big, great’, Yong 龍‘dragon’, Ho 虎 ‘tiger’, Chung 忠 ‘loyal’ Kang 强 ‘strong’ Shin 信 ‘belief, trusful’
  Female names:	Mi 美 ‘beautiful’, Ok 玉 ‘Jade’, Hye 惠 ‘gracious’, Ae 愛 ‘love’,  Ûn (Eun) 恩 ‘gradce ‘grace, favor’ Suk 淑 ‘pure, Sujông 水晶 ‘crystal’

  
  
• Traditional Native Korean names:
  

  Female Names		Male Names
  Yippûni 이쁜이	‘the pretty one’	Toli 돌이 or Bau 바우	‘the rock’
  Suni 순이	‘the gentle one’	Tolsoe 돌쇠	‘the rock iron’
  koptani 곱단이	‘the pretty one’	Soedoli 쇠돌이	‘the iron rock’
  kkochpuni 꽃분이	‘the flower girl’	Kkôksoe 꺽쇠	‘the tall one’

 

Modern Native Korean names:

With meanings		Without meanings
Hanûl 하늘	sky	Sûlpi	(cf. Yi, Sûlpi ‘misty rain’)
Sûlki 슬기	wisdom	Usûl	(cf. isul 'dew')
Hansûl 한슬	great wisdom
Himchan 힘찬	energetic
Chorong 초롱 (초롱 빛나리)	Sparklingly shiny
Hankyul 한결	Ever be the same
Dongnyeok 동녘	the Eastern sky
Pyôl 별	Star
Pitgaram 빛가람	light-river (Shiny river)
Arong 아롱	dappled
Ahrum 아름	an armful
Hana 하나	one