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Young-ho
Young-ho Young-ho (英浩, heroic vastness) belongs to the naming conventions of mid-twentieth-century Korea — a generation of men named with the heroic and vast characters who grew up through rapid economic development and social transformation. In contemporary Korean literary fiction, a character named Young-ho is often the father or grandfather figure: someone whose sense of duty was formed by historical necessity, whose emotional life was subordinated to survival and family obligation, and whose relationship with the younger generation is strained by this difference in formation.
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