So-young

So-young, also spelled So-yeong, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 45 hanja with the reading "so" and 34 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

So-young
Hangul	소영
Hanja	昭映, 昭暎, 素榮, 素英, and others
Revised Romanization	So-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Soyŏng

Not to be confused with Soo-young (name).

People with this name include:

Actresses and musicians

• Ahn So-young (born 1959), South Korean actress
• Ko So-young (born 1972), South Korean actress
• Soyoung Yoon (born 1984), South Korean violinist
• Yoo So-young (born 1986), South Korean singer, former member of After School
• Fat Cat (singer) (born Kim So-young, 1990), South Korean singer
• Esom (born Lee So-young, 1990), South Korean actress and model

Sportspeople

• Chung So-young (born 1967), South Korean badminton player
• Kim So-yeong (born 1992), South Korean badminton player
• Lee So-young (volleyball) (born 1994), South Korean volleyball player
• Park So-young (born 1994), South Korean badminton player

Visual artists

• Soh Yeong Roh (born 1961), South Korean art museum director, daughter of former president Roh Tae-woo
• So Yong Kim (born 1968), South Korean-born American filmmaker
• Soi Park (born Park So-young, 1971), South Korean photographer
• Lee So-young (artist) (born 1973), South Korean manhwa artist

Fictional people

• Kang So-young, a female supporting character and antagonist in the 2015 South Korean television series Who Are You: School 2015
• Park So-young, a female supporting character in the 2017 South Korean television series Suspicious Partner
• Kang So-young, a female supporting character in the 2016 South Korean television series Five Enough

See also

• List of Korean given names