- Daniel Dae Kim
Daniel Dae Kim (born August 4, 1968 in Busan, South Korea) is a Korean American actor. He is best known for playing Jin-Soo Kwon on the television series "Lost"
- Kim Young-Sam
Kim Young-sam (born December 20, 1927 in Geoje, South Gyeongsang) was the President of the South Korea from February 25, 1993 to February 25, 1998. Kim graduated from Seoul National University in 1952 with a BA in philosophy, and served in the South Korean armed forces during the Korean War. In 1954 he was elected to the National Assembly and served nine terms representing districts in Geoje and Busan.
- Jang Hyuk
Jang Hyuk (Main Name of Jeong Yong Joon, Born 20 December 1976) is a Korean actor. As a child, Jang Hyuk spent most of his life in Busan, his birth place before making his drama debut in the SBS drama Model in 1996. Jang Hyuk gained popularity in Asia since making the comedy film "Windstruck", with Jun Ji-hyun as the co-lead role and himself as the lead role.
- Lee Hae Chan
Lee Hae Chan (born July 10, 1952) is a former Prime Minister of South Korea. He was nominated by president Roh Moo-hyun on June 8, 2004, confirmed by the National Assembly on June 29, and took office on June 30. He is a member of the liberal Uri Party, and was elected five times for the National Assembly. On March 14, 2006, he resigned amidst the so called golf game scandal. He also served as the minister of education under former president Kim Dae-jung from 1998 to 1999, …
- Yoon Kwang-Ung
Yoon Kwang-ung (b. October 13 1942 in Busan) is the South Korean minister of national defense. He is the 39th to hold the post, which he entered in July 2004 after being appointed by president Roh Moo-hyun. He graduated from Busan Commercial High School in 1961 and from the ROK Naval Academy in 1966. He served in various positions in the Navy from 1985 to 2000; thereafter, he worked for three years as an advisor to Hyundai Heavy Industries.
- Ko San
Ko San (October 19, 1976-) is a South Korean researcher at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. Ko was born in Busan. His father died when he was a boy, and his mother raised him and his sister by herself. After specializing in Chinese at Hanyoung Foreign Language High School, Ko studied mathematics at Seoul National University.
- Toby Dawson
Toby Dawson (Korean: 김수철, Kim Soo-cheol, born 김봉석, Kim Bong-seok November 30, 1978 in Pusan, South Korea) is an American mogul skier. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
- Remy Ong
Remy Ong (Born: 22 November 1978) is a Singaporean bowler. Remy made his name in the 2002 Asian Games at Busan as the captain for the men's team when he became the nation's only second male multiple-gold medalist in the competition's 51-year history. He developed into a national bowler at the age of 16. Remy won his first perfect game at the ATBC Championships in 1998 at the tender age of 20.
- Soma Biswas
Soma Biswas (born 16 May 1978 in Ranaghat) is an athlete who lives in Calcutta, India and who specialises in the heptathlon. She rose to fame when she won the silver medal in 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. She won another silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. She managed to win the 110m hurdles, the 200m and the 800m during that heptathlon. Biswas worked with Kuntal Rai and several foreign coaches.
- Park Kwang-Su
Park Kwang-su is a Korean filmmaker. He was born in Sokcho, Gangwon province in South Korea on January 22, 1955 and grew up in Busan, South Korea. Park joined the Yallasung Film Group as a student of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. Upon graduation, he founded and led the Seoul Film Group which was dedicated to renewing Korean film culture and closely tied to the student protest movement.
- Neelam Jaswant Singh
Neelam Jaswant Singh (born 8 January 1971 in Farmana) is an Indian discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 64.55 metres, achieved at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan. During the 2005 World Championships she tested positive for the banned stimulant pemoline in an in-competition test.
- Sun Yingjie
Sun Yingjie (born January 19, 1979 in Liaoning) is a famous Chinese female long-distance runner who competes from 5000 metres to marathon. She is the only Chinese female runner who raced in a number of famous marathons such as Boston, New York, Tokyo and London. Her front-running style in the races is always impressive. From 1997 to 2000, she mainly focused on marathon.
- Jung Koo Chang
Jung Koo Chang (born February 4 1963 in Busan) is a South Korean world boxing champion. His nickname is "The Korean Hawk". In Chang's first world title try, he lost to Hilario Zapata of Panama by a decision in 15 rounds in 1982. However, in a rematch held at Seoul, he avenged that loss and became world champion by knocking out Zapata in three rounds. Chang then went on to establish a world record for the most defenses as a world Jr. Flyweight champion, …
- Jajang
Jajang (慈藏) (590 - 658) was a monk born in the kingdom of Silla, which occupied the entire Korean peninsula. He is credited with founding the Tongdosa temple in 646 CE, in what is now Busan, South Korea, and played a significant role in the adoption of Buddhism as the national religion of Silla. He was born Kim Seonjong (Hangul: 김선종; Hanja: 金善宗) to a noble family.
- Konishi Yukinaga
Konishi Yukinaga was a Japanese (Christian) daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was the son of a wealthy merchant, Konishi Ryusa. In 1587, during the Invasion of Kyushu, he quelled the local uprising in Higo province and was awarded a fief in that province. Yukinaga led the initial forces under Toyotomi Hideyoshi to invade Korea in the Seven-Year War. He was noted for his role in the capture of Busan and Seoul and the defensive at Pyongyang.
- Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski
Mikaela María Antonia de los Reyes Cojuangco-Jaworski, better known simply as Mikee Cojuangco, is an equestrianne, local television host and actress from the Philippines. She was born on February 26, 1974 to Tarlac congressman and current Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose "Peping" Cojuangco and Tarlac governor Margarita "Tingting" del los Reyes-Cojuangco.
- Sin Rip
Sin Rip was a distinguished Korean general who lived from 1546 to 1592. He passed the Korean national military examinations at the age of 22. Sin earned prominence by driving out the Nitanggae barbarians from the northern provinces of Joseon. Sin was a successful general who also gained renown for protecting the borders of Joseon against the Jurchen. When the fortifications at Busan fell to the Japanese at the outset of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598), Sin Rip, …
- Lin Hsin-I
Lin Hsin-i, a businessman politician in Taiwan, served in the Democratic Progressive Party administration as Minister of Economic Affairs between 2000 and 2002, then as Vice Premier between 2002 and 2004. In November 2005, while a Senior Presidential Adviser, Lin attended the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Busan, South Korea, in place of Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian. Because of opposition from the People's Republic of China, …
- Kim Jong-Chul
Kim Jong-chul is a South Korean poet. He was born in Busan in 1947. He rose to fame in 1968 when he was awarded a prize by the Hankook newspaper for his poem "Sound of a Loom". In 1970 Kim won another prize with the Seoul Daily newspaper for his poem "Drowned Dreams". He is considered one of the most significant Korean poets of current times. Kim grew up in extreme poverty.
- Shin-Soo Choo
Shin-Soo Choo is a professional baseball outfielder in the Cleveland Indians organization of Major League Baseball. He spent the first few weeks of the 2007 regular season with the Buffalo Bisons, a AAA team in the International League affiliated with the Indians, before being called up on April 23, 2007 to take the place of the injured third baseman Andy Marte.
- Abdul Halim bin Haron
Abdul Halim bin Haron is bodybuilder from Singapore who was inducted into the Singapore Sports Council's Hall of Fame for his impressive performance over the years. Starting his professional career in the welterweight category in the late 1990s, he successfully won a bronze medal in the Asian Championship in 2000, and came out tops in the Singaporean national competitions a year later. As there is a higher chance of winning medals in the lighter categories, …
- Oh Dal-Su
Oh Dal-su (born 15 June 1968 in Daegu) is a South Korean actor. He has played many crime-related roles, such as a jail owner in "Oldboy" (2003) and a former gang boss in "Mapado" (2005). He plays a semi-comic part as a weapons smuggler in "A Bittersweet Life" (2005). It is reported that he dubbed the voice of monster in "The Host" (2006). Oh began his acting career in the theatre in Busan, …
- Tolgahan Sayisman
Tolgahan Sayisman of Turkey, is the winner of Manhunt International in 2005, held in Busan, Korea. He is now an actor as well, has a role in a soap film which is called Esir Kalpler. He is a business management graduate and stands 1.87 m tall. His favorite sport is football.
- Kim Kyu-Sik
Kim Kyu-shik, also spelled Kim Gyu-sik (January 29 1881 - December 10 1950), was a leader in the Korean independence movement and the early history of South Korea. He was born in Dongnae, now part of Busan. Orphaned at a young age, he studied with the American missionary H.G. Underwood from the age of 6, taking the Christian name "Johann." Later he traveled to America, …
- Lee Chul Woo
Lee Chul Woo (b. February 20 1939)is a member of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Council, the chief legislative body of Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. He is the current chairperson of the council (until June 2006). He represents Cheongdo County, and is a graduate of Dongseong High School in Busan. Lee has served in the Provincial Council since its re-establishment in 1991. In addition to his current term as chairperson, he served as vice-chair in the previous Council.
- Cho Chikun
Cho Chikun "25h Honinbo" "Honorary Meijin" "Judan" (Japanese: 趙治勲, チョウチクン Chō Chikun, Korean: 조치훈, 趙治勲, RR: Jo Chi-hun, MC-R: Cho Ch'i-hun, born on June 20, 1956 in Busan, South Korea) is a professional Go player. His total title tally of 71 titles is the most in the history of the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. Cho is the first and only player to hold the top three titles-Kisei, Meijin, and Honinbo simultaneously.
- Rafael Nepomuceno
Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno (born January 30, 1957 in Manila) is a Filipino bowler who has won the World Cup in bowling four times in three decades: *In Tehran, Iran on November 19, 1976 *In Jakarta, Indonesia on November 1, 1980 *In Le Mans, France on November 8, 1992 *In Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 23, 1996 Nepomuceno also won the International Tournament championship in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 8, 1984 and the World Tenpin Masters championship in London, …
- Yoon Jin-Hee
Yoon Jin-Hee (born August 4, 1986) is a South Korean weightlifter. She ranked 3rd in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 Junior World Championships in Busan, South Korea, lifting 206 kg in total. She also competed in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and reached the 4th spot with 215 kg in total.
- Woo Jang-Choon
Woo Jang-choon (Japanese: 禹 長春 U Nagaharu or 須永長春 Sunaga Nagaharu, Korean: 우장춘, 禹長春, RR: U Jangchun, MC-R: U Chang-ch'un, 1898-1959) was a renowned Korean-Japanese agricultural scientist and botanist. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. When Korea earned its independence in 1945, Woo left his family in Japan, and came to Korea to lead the country in botany and agriculture. There is a museum in the port city of Busan in honor of Woo.
- Sim Bong-Geun
Sim Bong-geun (b. October 3, 1943 in Goseong) is an archaeologist, university professor and administrator at Dong-A University in Greater Busan, South Korea. Sim was appointed as the 12th president of Dong-A University in 2007. Sim received his Bachelor and Master's degrees at Dong-A University and earned his PhD from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. Sim started his archaeological career at the Dong-A University Museum, and was the museum's longtime Director.
- Hahn Dae-Soo
Hahn Dae-soo (born March 12 1948, Busan) is a South Korean folk / rock singer-songwriter. He led the Korean modern folk era of 1960s-1970s and released some experimental albums in the 1990s and 2000s.
- Chua Ling Fung Simon
Chua Ling Fung Simon is a bodybuilder from Singapore who started off as an instructor in a gymnasium before taking up the sport full-time. In 1991, he came in third in his first participation in a national event at the under-21 National Championship (Lightweight) competition, before going international and representing Singapore at the Pro-Am Classic held in Hong Kong in 1995 where he came in ninth position.
- Kim Hyi-Ro
Kim Hyi-ro (Japanese: "Kimu Hiro"), was a second-generation Korean in Japan born in November, 1928 in Shimizu, Shizuoka. His father was killed in the accident during the work of construction work in 1931. His mother later remarried in 1933. Since his family was poor, he dropped out the elementary school by the fifth grade. He was caught in theft and it was put into him by the reformatory in 1943. After that, he repeated crimes, such as theft, swindling, …
- Kaisar Nurmagambetov
Kaisar Nurmagambetov, (always incorrectly referred to as Nurmaganbetov in Western sources), born 5 August 1977 in Zhezqazghan, is a flatwater canoer from Kazakhstan. He has won four Asian Games medals, including one gold. Nurmagambetov made his international debut at the age of eighteen, winning a bronze medal at the 1995 Asian Canoeing Championships in the Canadian canoe C1 1000m.
- Won Pil Kim
Won Pil Kim is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. He first met Moon in July 1946 in Pyongyang, North Korea, when Kim was 18 years old. Members of the Unification Church consider him to be Moon's first disciple. Kim played a significant role in Rev. Moon's life on several occasions. He nursed him back to health in October 1947 after Moon was nearly beaten to death by communist prison guards.
- Mark Bussan
Mark Bussan (TOP) Mr. Bussan is a highly skilled Makeup Artist from beauty to makeup effects. Mark has won two Emmys and eight Emmy Nominations. For over 35 years he has done numerous motion pictures, dozens of television shows such as "The Young and the Restless", "Charlie's Angels", and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" just to name a few. He recently worked on "Deadwood" for HBO. Mark is very involved with Hollywood Local 706 IATSE.
- Empress Sunjeong Of Korean Empire
Empress Sunjeong of Korea (20 August 1894 - 3 February 1966) was the consort of Emperor Yunghui, the last emperor of the Joseon Dynasty and Korea. She was born "Lady Yun of Haepyeong" in Seoul and her father was Marquis Yun Taek-yeong, the Lord of Haepung. She married Crown Prince Cheok after his first wife (known posthumously as Empress Sunmyeong) died.
- John Busan
- John Busan
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