page_title: Park (Korean surname)
section_title: Clans
hierarchical_section_title: Park (Korean surname) / Clans
caption_attribution_description: 한국어: 박정희English: 5-9th president of South Korea, Park Chung hee.
context_page_description: Park or Bak, is the third-most-common surname in Korea, traditionally traced back to King Hyeokgeose Park and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. The name Park or Bak is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun Bak, which means "gourd." As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 4,192,074 people by this name in South Korea or roughly 8.4% of the population.
context_section_description: As with other Korean surnames, different lineages, known as bon-gwan or clans, are inherited from a father by his children. These designate the region of Korea or paternal ancestor, from which they claim to originate. Out of the kings of Silla, ten had the Park surname. During the rule of King Pasa (80–112), the Park clans became divided and during the reign of King Gyeongmyeong (917–924) they became even more fractured, creating several lineages. This is when the nine Park clans named after the nine sons of Gyeongmyeong came into existence.
  70–80% of the current bearers of the surname belong to the Miryang Bak clan. In 2015, there were 314 Bak clans in South Korea, with about 4.19 million people altogether.
  The clans which produced the most number of notable people in Korean history are collectively called the "8 Parks", these are: the Miryang Park clan (밀양박씨), the Bannam Park clan (반남박씨), the Goryeong Park clan (고령박씨), the Hamyang Park clan (함양박씨), the Juksan Park clan (죽산박씨), the Suncheon Park clan (순천박씨), the Muan Park clan (무안박씨) and the Chungju Park clan (충주박씨).
caption: 5,6,7,8,9th president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee. He is from Goryeong clan of the Baks.
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