Sang (Korean name)
Sang is a rare Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names.
Family name
As a family name, Sang may be written with only one hanja, meaning "yet" or "still". The 2000 South Korean Census found 2,298 people and 702 households with this family name. All but five of those listed a single bongwan : Mokcheon, Dongnam District, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. One person listed a different bongwan, while four others had their bongwan listed as unknown. They claim descent from Sang Guk-jin, an official of the early Goryeo period who was born in Mokcheon and rose to the post of there.Given name
People with the single-syllable Korean given name Sang include:- Yi Sang, birth name Kim Haikyung, Korean writer of the Japanese colonial period
- Ku Sang, South Korean poet
- Chang Sang, South Korean politician, country's first female prime minister