What are the top ten Korean surnames?

The top ten Korean surnames include Jin, Li, Pu, Cui, Zheng, Jiang, Zhao, Yin, Zhang and Lin.

Among the five most populous surnames in North and South Korea: Kim, Park, Lee, Cui, and Zheng, the Kim family has 106 original roots; the Park family has more than 70 original roots; and the Choi family has 43 original roots. Guan, all of local origin; among the 109 original Guans of the Li family, more than 30 ancestors came from China; among the 35 original Guans of the Zheng family, only the ancestors of the two original Guans, Ruishan Zheng and Langya Zheng, came from China.

The three surnames Park, Jin and Xi are the largest nobles in the Silla ruling group. The three royal families implement the highest hierarchy of "sacred bones" and "true bones". "Each family does not marry each other." Both the Park family and the Kim family have implemented this hierarchical system.

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The origin of Korean surnames

Let’s start with the most common surname Jin in North Korea. The surname Kim has several origins. The first one comes from King Kim of Silla, and the second one comes from King Kim Suro of Gaya. The surname Park comes from Park Hyukju, the ancestor of the Silla kings (although the kings of Silla were from the same family, they had two surnames, Park and Kim). Both of these surnames are surnames from myths and legends. The three surnames of Jeju Island, Gao, Fu, and Yang, also come from myths and legends.

The King of Baekje, Buyeo, and the King of Goguryeo, Go, had their own surnames. There are also some surnames given by ancient Chinese emperors or the kings of the three kingdoms of the Korean Peninsula (such as the Jinhae Xu surname given by the King of Silla, and the Ganquan Wen surname given by the Chinese emperor), who created their own surnames and changed their surnames (after the fall of Goryeo, the royal family of the Wang family changed their surnames to Ok. , Quan, Tian, ??etc.).

Buyulong, the son of King Uiji of Baekje, went to study in the Tang Dynasty of China after the fall of the country, and was given the surname Xu by Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty.

After the third generation of King Confucianism of Silla divided the country into six tribes, he gave the chiefs of each tribe a surname. For example, Kureima gave the surname Sun, Suvaduli gave the surname Choi, etc.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Korean surnames