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Hyun-woo
Hyun-woo Hyun-woo (賢宇, virtuous and universal) names a character whose moral excellence is not cramped or provincial but genuinely capacious — someone whose goodness can accommodate the full range of human experience without flinching. The distinction between Hyun-woo and Hyeon-woo is primarily in romanization convention; both draw on the same hanja and cultural resonances. Hyun-woo suits the dependable, intellectually serious male protagonist in Korean literary fiction whose competence is matched by his ethical clarity.
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