Uiryeong Nam clan
Uiryeong Nam clan | |
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Country | Korea |
Current region | Uiryeong County |
Founder | |
Connected members | Nam Gon Nam Duck-woo Nam Kyung-pil Nam Hyun-hee Eric Nam Nam Tae-hee |
Website | http://www.euiryungnam.kr/xe/ |
Uiryeong Nam clan (Korean: 의령 남씨; Hanja: 宜寧 南氏) is a Korean clan. Their Bon-gwan is in Uiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province. According to research from 2015, the number of people in Uiryeong Nam clan was 162729. Their founder was . Before he became naturalized, he was dispatched to Japan as an envoy. However, on his way back to Korea, he had a shipwreck because of a typhoon. He was granted his new surname (i.e. clan name) Nam (hanja: 南氏) by Gyeongdeok of Silla because he was from Runan County (hanja: 汝南), China.[1][2]
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- ^ Academy of Korean Studies 의령 남씨 宜寧南氏. Academy of Korean Studies.
- ^ A Comparison of the Korean and Japanese Approaches to Foreign Family Names (PDF). Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia Vol.5 .CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)p19 (2014).
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