경주 박씨(慶州 朴氏) — A clan that takes Park Sang (first named Park Ang), said to be a 38th-generation descendant of Silla's King Pasa, as founder. It is treated as a seat distinct from the Wolseong Park and Gyerim Park clans.
A clan that takes Park Sang (first named Park Ang), said to be a 38th-generation descendant of Silla's King Pasa, as founder. It is treated as a seat distinct from the Wolseong Park and Gyerim Park clans. In the 2015 Census the 경주 박씨 clan numbered about 22,262 people, one of Korea's major surnames and clans. Even among people surnamed 박, a different clan seat (bon-gwan, 경주) means a different lineage. New to these terms? See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
Over the generations the 경주 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.
박상(founder·scholar-official who retired after the Gyeyu Coup), 박자신(Park Sang's father·Yemun-gwan gyoeung), 박세리(golfer who competed on the LPGA Tour; listed as Gyeongju Park on Namuwiki)
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The Gyeongju Park clan (慶州 朴氏) takes Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, as its seat and reveres as founder Park Sang (朴像, first named Park Ang 朴昻), recorded as a 38th-generation descendant of Silla's fifth king, Pasa Isageum. Namuwiki writes the same name as 朴盎 and adds that he was a 33rd-generation descendant of Park Je-sang; the characters and generation counts differ between sources, so exact values must be checked in the genealogy. Above the founder, Silla's founder Park Hyeokgeose is honored as the remote ancestor.
According to the Gyeongju Park Sebo, Park Sang was a son of Park Ja-sin (朴自臣), who served as a Yemun-gwan gyoeung and Gukja jikhak in late Goryeo. No explanation of how Gyeongju became the seat could be found in public sources.
Gyeongju Park is regarded as coming from the Pasa Isageum line of Silla's Park kings (the same broad line as Park Je-sang). By contrast, Wolseong Park is said to descend from Park Eon-ui, youngest of King Gyeongmyeong's eight princes, and Gyerim Park from Park Sun-hyeon of the King Gyeongae line. Wolseong and Gyerim are old names for Gyeongju, so the seats were once mixed in usage, but because the genealogies differ they are now treated as separate. Namuwiki itself says both that Gyeongju Park is "also called Wolseong Park" and that the two have different lineages; this site keeps them separate, including in search.
Wikipedia gives 22,262 members for the Gyeongju Park clan in the 2015 census.
Park Sang passed the civil service examination in 1451 (King Munjong's first year) and served as a jeojak at the Office of Special Advisors. After the Gyeyu Jeongnan of 1453, when Grand Prince Suyang seized power, he is said to have given up office in dismay and lived in seclusion, in later life under Mt. Baeigsan in Pyeonggwang-ri, west of Haman, South Gyeongsang. The mountain's name is said to honor Boyi, a figure of moral steadfastness. Public sources do not confirm that the place became the clan's home village. The summary supplied for this page says his descendants flourished, but this could not be verified.
Wikipedia also mentions that Park Sim-mun (Chungjeong-gong) discussed principles with Park Sang on Mt. Suyang and that the Six Martyred Scholars figure Kim Si-seup went into the mountains with him. It does not state that these men belong to the Gyeongju Park clan.
Part of the Gyeongju Park Sebo is said to have burned during the Imjin War, so some generations since the founder should be understood as reconstructed.
No information on branches could be confirmed in public sources, so no branch cards are provided. The founder Park Sang is the figure known. Namuwiki lists golfer Park Se-ri as a Gyeongju Park. Park Hyeokgeose has his own page.
The clan association address and generation names could not be confirmed in public sources.
The 경주 박씨 clan association can be found in the Korean E-Jokbo Library clan-association directory.
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