태인 박씨(泰仁 朴氏) — A Park seat based in Taein (the former Taesan), Jeongeup, North Jeolla, said to be linked to the Donjae-gong branch of the Miryang Park.
A Park seat based in Taein (the former Taesan), Jeongeup, North Jeolla, said to be linked to the Donjae-gong branch of the Miryang Park. In the 2015 Census the 태인 박씨 clan numbered about 1,012 people, one of Korea's major surnames and clans. Even among people surnamed 박, a different clan seat (bon-gwan, 태인) means a different lineage. New to these terms? See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
Jeonghye-gong-pa, Maeheon-gong-pa, Baegudang-pa
The Jeonghye-gong branch descends from Park Su-ryang (朴守良, 1491-1554), famed as an incorruptible official. His posthumous title is Jeonghye, and the Hwangryong-myeon area of Jangseong, South Jeolla, is known as its home. An inscription-less stele, the Baekbi, stands before his grave and is designated Jeonnam Monument No. 198; his tablet is enshrined at Moam Seowon and Susansa.
The Maeheon-gong branch descends from Park Haeng-jung (1641-1689), known as a disciple of Song Si-yeol, who is said to have compiled the first Taein Park genealogy in 1687. The founder's hanja could not be verified, so please check a genealogy.
The Baegudang branch descends from Park Sang-ui (1538-1621), a geomancer involved in selecting royal tomb and palace sites under Seonjo and Gwanghaegun. Some hanja here are unverified and need checking against a genealogy.
Branch divisions vary by lineage and jokbo; confirm your own branch in your family's records.
박윤화(Goryeo exam graduate), 박수량(incorruptible official·founder of Jeonghye-gong branch), 박상의(geomancer), 박행중(founder of Maeheon-gong branch), 박권상(journalist·former KBS president)
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The seat name Taein (泰仁) combines two districts, Taesan and Uiui, merged in 1409 (Taejong 9), with the administrative seat moved to Geosan. The Sejong Sillok Geography records Park as an indigenous clan of Taesan, indicating that the clan's base was Taesan, not Uiui. Park Yun-hwa, a civil-service graduate of 1290, is recorded as "originally of Taesan", offered as an early use of the Taesan seat. The clan is therefore also called the Taesan Park.
Namuwiki lists Park Hyeokgeose as ultimate ancestor, Prince Milseong Park Eon-chim as the original ancestor, Park Eon-sang (a Dopyeong-uisa and Milchik official in the genealogy) as middle ancestor, and Park Yeon-saeng (a Daehogun under Danjong, founder of the Donjae-gong branch) as the founding ancestor of the generation line. Park Hyeon-son is also treated as middle founder, and a line counting Park Geo-in as first settler is also presented. The link between Taesan Park's Goryeo-era records and the genealogical lineage is said to be unverified.
Clan tradition holds that Park Yeon-saeng protested the 1453 coup and Sejo's accession, went into hiding and changed his seat from Milseong to Taein. The 1741 revision of the Milseong Park comprehensive genealogy included the Taein Park, leading some to use Miryang; in 1831 Park Gyu-hyeok and others petitioned the Board of Rites to restore Miryang, and after consulting Hong Jik-pil in 1850 most of the family returned to Miryang while some kept Taein, dividing opinion. The Donjae-gong lineage estimates over 30,000 descendants now use Miryang. This rests on clan tradition and is not an official ruling. Some sources call the Taein Park the "Dopyeong-uisa-gong, Donjae-gong branch of the Miryang Park".
The National Statistical Portal's 2015 surname statistics give 963 Taein Park and 49 Taesan Park, 1,012 in total (Namuwiki's Park-surname article gives 6,567 for 2015, so sources differ). The seat is Taein-myeon, Jeongeup, North Jeolla, and the clan has lived in Agok-ri and Gwandong-ri in Hwangryong-myeon, Jangseong (Sogok area), Hanam-dong in Gwangju's Gwangsan-gu, Dasi, Noan and Munpyeong in Naju, Yeomsan in Yeonggwang, Haeri and Sillim in Gochang, Haseo in Buan, Mawun-ri in Pungsan-eup, Andong, and Bukji-ri in Mulya-myeon, Bonghwa.
Namuwiki lists the Jeonghye-gong (founder Park Su-ryang), Mogudang (Park Su-gong), Baegudang (Park Sang-ui), Nulheon-gong (Park Sang-ji), Maeheon-gong (Park Haeng-jung) and Seupdeuk-gong (Park Sa-chim) branches. Park Haeng-jung (1641-1689), a disciple of Song Si-yeol, is said to have compiled the first Taein Park genealogy in 1687.
Park Yun-hwa passed the 1290 civil examination. Park Su-ryang (1491-1554) passed in 1514, became Second Minister of the Privy Council, was twice chosen as an incorruptible official, and is famed for the inscription-less Baekbi stele in Jangseong. Park Sang-ui (1538-1621) was a geomancer involved in selecting royal tomb and palace sites under Seonjo and Gwanghaegun. Also recorded are Lady Im, wife of Park Jo, honoured for rescuing her mother-in-law from a fire, and Park Yun-geun, whose filial finger-severing in 1513 earned a memorial gate. In modern times Park Eun-yong (1880-1949), a recognized independence activist, and the journalist Park Gwon-sang (1929-2014) are listed. Some accounts describe the Kumho Asiana business family as of the Taein line, but Wikipedia's article on Park In-cheon gives his seat as Miryang, so the seat naming differs. The clan counts one civil-service graduate in Goryeo and two in Joseon.
The Taein Park is said to descend from Prince Milseong Park Eon-chim, eldest son of King Gyeongmyeong of Silla, and is entangled with a Miryang Park branch. The eight-princes account is a tradition in Park genealogies not accepted by every seat. No separate clan association name or generation characters were found in public sources.
The 태인 박씨 clan association can be found in the Korean E-Jokbo Library clan-association directory.
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