Beom-seok is a Korean masculine given name.
Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.
[1] The name may be spelled various ways in the Roman alphabet.
One customary spelling, Bum-suk, became a source of mirth to Anglophones in the 1950s and again in the 1980s, when two South Korean politicians who spelled their name that way rose to prominence.
[2][3][4] As a result, other transcriptions such as Pom-sok came into wider use.