Suwon Baek clan
CountryKorea
Current regionSuwon
FounderBaek Wu Kyung
Connected membersBaek Jong-won
Baek Jin-hee
Baek Ji-heon
Baek A-yeon
Yerin Baek
Baek Ji-young
Baek Sung-hyun

The Suwon Baek clan (Korean: 수원 백씨; Hanja: 水原 白氏) is a Korean clan. It is from Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. According to research conducted in 2015, the number of members of the clan was 354,428. Their founder was Baek Wu Kyung, who came to Korea during the Silla period and took a government post. His hometown was Hua Prefecture, Shaanxi.[1][2]

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References

  1. Academy of Korean Studies 수원 백씨 水原白氏. 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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