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Uiryeong Nam clan

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Uiryeong Nam clan
CountryKorea
Current regionUiryeong County
FounderNam Min [ja]
Connected membersNam Joo-hyuk
Nam Ji-hyun
Nam Gyu-ri
Nam Duck-woo
Nam Kyung-pil
Nam Hyun-hee
Eric Nam
Nam Tae-hee
Dawon (singer)
Nam Ji-hyun (actress, born 1990)
Nam Woo-hyun
Websitehttp://www.euiryungnam.kr/xe/

Uiryeong Nam clan (Korean의령 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 Nam Min [ja]. 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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References

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  1. ^ Academy of Korean Studies 의령 남씨 宜寧南氏. 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: 19 – via Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia.
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