Paju Yeom clan

Sangsan Lee clan
CountryKorea
Current regionPaju
FounderYeom Hyeong myeong [ja]
Connected membersYeom Sin-Bi
Yeom Ki-hun
Yeom Kyung-yup
Yeom Han-woong
Andrew Yeom Soo-jung
Yeom Dong-jin
Yeom Sang-seop
Websitehttp://www.pajuyom.kr/

Paju Yeom clan (Korean: 파주 염씨; Hanja: 坡州 廉氏) is one of the Korean clans. Their Bon-gwan is in Paju, Gyeonggi Province. According to the research held in 2015, the number of Paju Yeom clan was 63,350.

Their founder is Yeom Hyeong myeong [ja], an ethnic Chinese person. He settled in Paju, Silla to avoid conflict during the Later Tang period. He supported Taejo of Goryeo and contributed to unifying three Korean dynasties. He was appointed High Merit Minister (Hanja: 壁上功臣).[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ Academy of Korean Studies 파주염씨 坡州廉氏. Academy of Korean Studies.
  2. ^ Jin Guanglin [in Japanese] (2014). "A Comparison of the Korean and Japanese Approaches to Foreign Family Names" (PDF). Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia. 5: 18 – via Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia.