Jeong-eun, also spelled Jung-eun, Jeong-un, or Jong-un, is a Korean unisex given name.
In South Korea, it is overwhelmingly used as a female name.
Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.
As of December 2018[update], regulations of South Korea's Supreme Court list 84 hanja with the reading jeong and 30 hanja with the reading eun which may be registered for use in given names.
[1] The Seoul-based Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported, based on a document obtained by North Korean defector and KBS employee Park Jin-hee, that beginning in January 2011 North Korea banned birth registrations using the name Kim Jong-un and required existing bearers of the name to change to a different name.