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Kwang-il

Korean male given name (광일)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ69507853 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kwang-il or Gwang-il (Korean: 광일) is a Korean given name. Notable people with the name include:

Jeong Kwang-il, North Korean defector

Jo Gwang-il (born 1996), South Korean rapper

Kwon Kwang-il (born 1990), North Korean sport shooter

Park Kwang-il (born 1991), South Korean football midfielder

Ri Kwang-il (born 1988), North Korean football goalkeeper

Rim Kwang-il, North Korean general and politician

Shin Gwang-il (fl.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kwang-il” is korean male given name (광일). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kwang-il, Korean and male, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1990, 1991, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kwang-il, Korean and male is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “korean male given name (광일)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q69507853. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 1990, 1991 and 1988.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Kwang-il” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.