Originally, about 3000 years ago, people thought of brightness to be the moonlight coming through a window in the night. Thus, they put a character for the window and the moon together to symbolize the brightness. While the sun light in the day was taken for granted as the source of light, the moon light that lit the pitch black night that enable them to do things was more poetic in their hearts and appreciated. The modern character that combines the sun – at the left – and the moon – at the right – was belived to have been changed about 2000 years ago. This character combines the source of light in the day and the moon that lights the night to symbolize the brightness. This character is our family name MYONG.
The character is sometimes spelled as Myung, Myoung, Meong, or some other ways that simulate the Korean pronunciation of the character.
The Chinese pronunciation for the same character is Ming, and the Japanese pronunciation is Mei.
The logo is a graphic representation of the myong character.