Yeongyang Cheon clan
Yeongyang Cheon clan | |
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Country | Korea |
Current region | Ningyang County |
Founder | |
Connected members | Chun Woo-hee Song Ji-hyo Chun Jung-myung Chun Myung-hoon Cheon Ho-sun Chun Ho-jin Chun Jung-bae Cheon Sang-byeong |
The Yeongyang Cheon clan (Korean: 영양 천씨; Hanja: 潁陽 千氏) is one of the Korean clans. Their Bon-gwan is in Ningyang County, Tai'an, Shandong, China, known as Yeongyang (Korean: 영양) in Korean. According to the research held in 2015, the number of Yeongyang Cheon clan’s member was 100014. Their founder was in China. ’s 9 th descendant dispatched , a general in Ming dynasty, to Joseon to fight in Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98). stayed in Joseon and was naturalized there without returning to his country after the war. Then, he founded the Yeongyang Cheon clan.[1]
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