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Kyung-hee
Kyung-hee Kyung-hee (慶熙, radiantly auspicious) carries the name of an era — one of Korea's largest universities (Kyung Hee University, founded 1949) takes this name, giving it an institutional resonance alongside the personal one. A character named Kyung-hee is likely to be an older woman in contemporary fiction: someone whose life spans Korea's most dramatic transformations, who carries the aspirations of her naming era in her character even as the world around her has become unrecognizable. The name suits matriarchs of complex family sagas.
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