English
Etymology
From South Korea + -an.
Noun
South Korean (plural South Koreans)
- A citizen or resident of South Korea.
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times[1]:By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.
Translations
person from or descended from South Korea
- Armenian: հարավկորեացի (haravkoreacʻi)
- Asturian: surcoreanu (ast) m, surcoreana (ast) f
- Catalan: sud-coreà (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 韓國人 / 韩国人 (zh) (Hánguórén)
- Corsican: sudcoreanu m, sudcureanu m, sudcoreana f, sudcureana f
- Czech: Jihokorejec (cs) m, Jihokorejka (cs) f
- Danish: sydkoreaner
- Dutch: Zuid-Koreaan (nl) m, Zuid-Koreaanse (nl) f
- Esperanto: sudkoreo
- Finnish: eteläkorealainen (fi)
- French: Sud-Coréen (fr) m, Sud-Coréenne (fr) f
- Galician: surcoreano (gl) m
- Georgian: სამხრეთ კორეელი (samxret ḳoreeli), სამხრეთკორეელი (samxretḳoreeli)
- German: Südkoreaner (de) m, Südkoreanerin (de) f
- Greek: Νοτιοκορεάτης m (Notiokoreátis), Νοτιοκορεάτισσα f (Notiokoreátissa)
- Hungarian: dél-koreai (hu)
- Icelandic: Suður-Kóreumaður m, Suður-Kóreubúi m
- Italian: sudcoreano (it) m, sudcoreana (it) f
- Japanese: 韓国人 (ja) (かんこくじん, Kankokujin)
- Korean: 한국 사람 (han'guk saram), 한국인 (ko) (han'gugin), 우리나라 사람 (urinara saram)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sørkoreaner m
- Nynorsk: sørkorean (nn) m, sørkoreanar (nn) m
- Occitan: sud-corean m, sud-coreana f
- Polish: Koreańczyk (pl) m, Koreanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: sul-coreano (pt) m, sul-coreana f
- Romanian: sud-coreean m, sud-coreeană f, sud-coreeancă f
- Russian: южнокоре́ец (ru) m (južnokoréjec), южнокорея́нка f (južnokorejánka)
- Slovak: Juhokórejčan m, Juhokórejčanka f
- Spanish: surcoreano (es) m, surcoreana (es) f
- Swedish: sydkorean (sv) c
- Turkish: Güney Koreli, Güney Kore (tr)
- Ukrainian: південнокоре́єць m (pivdennokoréjecʹ), південнокоре́янка f (pivdennokoréjanka)
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Adjective
South Korean (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to South Korea or the South Korean people.
2016 April 28, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride”, in The New York Times[2]:The South Korean brand is after a more sophisticated and — ahem — mature look.
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