평강 전씨(平康 全氏) — A seat said to have branched from the Jeongseon Jeon clan, taking Jeon Bin as its founder.
A seat said to have branched from the Jeongseon Jeon clan, taking Jeon Bin as its founder. In the 2015 Census the 평강 전씨 clan numbered about 3,467 people, one of Korea's major surnames and clans. Even among people surnamed 전, a different clan seat (bon-gwan, 평강) means a different lineage. New to these terms? See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
The Pyeonggang Jeon has its seat at Pyeonggang in Gangwon and is known as a branch of the Jeongseon Jeon. Its founder is Jeon Bin, and a notable descendant is Jeon Yu-hyeong. For the original ancestors Jeon Seop and Jeon I-gap, see the Jeongseon Jeon page.
Detailed branches could not be confirmed.
Branch divisions vary by lineage and jokbo; confirm your own branch in your family's records.
전빈(founder of the Pyeonggang Jeon), 전유형(Imjin War righteous army leader and Vice-Minister of Punishments)
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The Pyeonggang Jeon (平康 全氏) is a branch of the Jeon surname with its seat at Pyeonggang in Gangwon, and its original ancestor is Jeon Seop, a founding meritorious subject of Baekje. Its founder is Jeon Bin; Wikipedia says he served as Jeongeon and Magistrate of Sukcheon in Goryeo and, after Joseon was founded, became Grand Academician of Bomungak and Earl of Pyeonggang. Another source counts him as a 14th-generation descendant of Jeon I-gap and says he withdrew into the mountains to keep his loyalty when Goryeo fell.
The Jeongseon Jeon took Jeongseon as its seat when Jeon Seop's 8th-generation descendant Jeon Seon was enfeoffed there, and later split into several seats through the Goryeo founding subjects Jeon I-gap and Jeon Ui-gap. The Pyeonggang Jeon is described as one of these, but no confirmed source was found explaining why the founder took Pyeonggang as his seat (for example, whether it came from the title of Earl of Pyeonggang). Recent genealogies are reportedly merging the seats back under Jeongseon, so ask the clan for the exact line.
The best-known descendant is Jeon Yu-hyeong (1566-1624), who raised a righteous army with Jo Heon in the Imjin War as a Goesan student, topped the civil examination and became Vice-Minister of Punishments under Gwanghaegun. The Encyclopedia of Korean Culture gives that office as Hyeongjo (Punishments), while some surname articles write Byeongjo (War), so sources differ. He was executed on a false accusation connected with Yi Gwal's rebellion, later exonerated and posthumously made Minister of Personnel, and enshrined at Hwaam Seowon in Goesan.
In Sosu-myeon, Goesan, North Chungcheong, stands the Pyeonggang Jeon Hyoyeolgak (built 1773; North Chungcheong Cultural Heritage Material, designated 2007), managed by the clan, said to honor the memorial gates of Jeon Yu-hyeong's son Jeon U, his brothers and grandsons. Goesan therefore seems the principal seat, but other clan villages were not confirmed.
Wikipedia gives 3,467 in the 2015 census, a relatively small seat.
An official association site, contacts, branch divisions and generation names could not be confirmed. Check your own branch and generation name against your genealogy and clan.
The number of generations between Jeon Bin and Jeon Yu-hyeong and Jeon Bin's career differ by source, so they are not asserted here.
The 평강 전씨 clan association can be found in the Korean E-Jokbo Library clan-association directory.
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