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Hangul
  
석주

Revised Romanization
  
Seok-ju

Hanja
  
錫冑, 錫疇, 錫柱, and others

McCune–Reischauer
  
Sŏkju

Seok-ju, also spelled Seok-joo or Sok-ju, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "seok" and 56 hanja with the reading "ju" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

People with this name include:

  • Kim Seok-ju (1634–1684), Joseon Dynasty Neo-Confucian scholar
  • Na Seok-ju (1892–1926), Korean independence activist who bombed the Oriental Development Company
  • Kang Sok-ju (born 1939), North Korean politician and diplomat
  • Ha Seok-ju (born 1968), South Korean football player

    • Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Kim Seok-joo, from 2014 South Korean television series A New Leaf

    • References

    Seok-ju Wikipedia
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