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This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim ( 김 ), followed by Lee ( 이) and Park ( 박 ). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis.
Kan (surname) Kang (Korean surname) Ki (Korean surname) Kim (Korean surname) Ko (Korean surname) Kong (surname) Kook (surname) Kwak (surname) Kwon.
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Kim ( Korean : 김; Hanja : 金) is the most common surname in Korea. As of the 2015 South Korean census, there were 10,689,959 people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population. Although the surname is always pronounced the same, dozens of different family clans ( bon-gwan) use it. The clan system in Korea is unique from the ...
Park ( Korean : 박, Korean pronunciation: [pak̚] ), also spelled as Pak or Bak is the third-most common surname in Korea, [1] traditionally traced back to 1st century King Hyeokgeose Park and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. Park or Bak is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun Bak ( 박 ), meaning "gourd". [2]
A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong ( Korean : 성명; Hanja : 姓名 ), seongham ( 성함; 姓銜 ), or ireum ( 이름) are commonly used. When a Korean name is written in Hangul, there is no space ...
Lee (Korean surname) Lee, I, or Yi ( 이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim ( 김 ). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population. [1]
Yoo (Korean surname) Yu or Yoo, or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo, is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as 유 or 류 in hangul. As of 2000, roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea, making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those, the most common is Ryu (Hanja: 柳, Hangul: 류 ), [1] with more than six ...