군위 박씨(軍威 朴氏) — An ancestral seat in Gunwi, whose founding ancestor Bak Heon is traditionally said to descend from Bak Eon-sin, Prince Sokham, and is known as a Joseon founding merit subject.
An ancestral seat in Gunwi, whose founding ancestor Bak Heon is traditionally said to descend from Bak Eon-sin, Prince Sokham, and is known as a Joseon founding merit subject. In the 2015 Census the 군위 박씨 clan numbered about 1,333 people, one of Korea's major surnames and clans. Even among people surnamed 박, a different clan seat (bon-gwan, 군위) means a different lineage. New to these terms? See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
Over the generations the 군위 박씨 clan divided into several branches (pa). Confirm which branch your family belongs to through your jokbo or clan association. See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
박헌(founder, Joseon founding secondary merit subject)
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The Gunwi Park clan (軍威 朴氏) honors Silla's founding king Park Hyeokgeose as its distant progenitor and takes Bak Heon (朴軒) as its founding ancestor, traditionally a 15th-generation descendant of Bak Eon-sin, Prince Sokham and third son of King Gyeongmyeong. He is said to have passed the civil examination under King U of Goryeo, helped Yi Seong-gye found Joseon and been enrolled as a founding secondary merit subject, rising to vice-minister of Works and being enfeoffed as Lord of Gunwi.
Gunwi is traced, together with Hamyang and Samcheok, to Bak Eon-sin's line. This is a genealogical tradition rather than documented history, and some Park clans such as Bannam do not accept the eight-prince account.
Gunwi, in central North Gyeongsang, was originally Silla's Nodongmyeok county, renamed Jeokra in 757. Under Goryeo it belonged to Sangju (1018) and Ilseon (1143); the Sejong Annals gazetteer lists five native clans there: Bak, Na, Bang, O and Seo. It became Gunwi County in 1896 and absorbed parts of Uiheung and Uiseong in 1914.
The 2015 census counted about 1,333 members. In Joseon the clan produced four civil examination graduates (Bak Sim, Bak Tae-hwi, Bak Hyeon-bo, Bak Hui-an) and thirteen military graduates. Settlements, branches, generation names, a clan association and details of notable individuals are not confirmed in public sources.
The 군위 박씨 clan association can be found in the Korean E-Jokbo Library clan-association directory.
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