About
Project Myung's Purpose
Our Vision
Project Myung is a student-led project exploring how names in the Joseon dynasty from childhood names to posthumous titles. By connecting these names to lives, social ideals, and cultural heritage, we show how names carried history and identity.
Team Project Myung
Zoe Chang
FOUNDER
Zoe Chang is a high school student at Seoul International School who aims to make history more accessible and engaging. With a passion for cultural heritage and preservation, she founded Project Myung to uncover how names in the Joseon dynasty reflect values and identities, and to share those connections with a wider community.
FRQs
Q: What is Project Myung?
A project uncovering the meanings and values behind names in the Joseon dynasty, across all classes and contexts.
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Q: Why study Joseon names?
Because names weren’t just personal identifiers — they reflected family hopes, Confucian ideals, and social order.
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Q: How does this connect to cultural heritage?
The same values in names appear in Korea’s heritage — from royal tombs and effigies, to the Annals preserving royal and social history.
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Q: What impact do you hope to make?
We aim to help communities see names as living cultural artifacts — bridges between the personal and the national, the past and the present.