Famous People
Famous people from Suwon include:
- Queens Park Rangers footballer Park Ji-Sung grew up in Suwon, in 2005 a city street was renamed after him.
- SHINee leader Lee Jin Ki a.k.a. Onew
- Footballer Kim Jin-Woo
- Pastor Billy Kim, Former President of the Baptist World Alliance and current President of the Far East Broadcasting Company
- 2AM Leader and variety show trend Jo Kwon
- Cellist Han-na Chang
- Actress Hyun Young
- Actress Ha Ji-won
- Presenter and columnist Sam Oh
- MMA fighter Kim Dong-Hyun
- Block B member Kim Yu-kwon
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)