울산 박씨(蔚山 朴氏) — A clan seated at Ulsan, founded by Park Yun-ung, a Goryeo founding merit subject, and traditionally said to descend from Grand Prince Geumseong Park Gyo-sun, eldest son of Silla's King Gyeongae.
A clan seated at Ulsan, founded by Park Yun-ung, a Goryeo founding merit subject, and traditionally said to descend from Grand Prince Geumseong Park Gyo-sun, eldest son of Silla's King Gyeongae. In the 2015 Census the 울산 박씨 clan numbered about 26,571 people, one of Korea's major surnames and clans. Even among people surnamed 박, a different clan seat (bon-gwan, 울산) means a different lineage. New to these terms? See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
Over the generations the 울산 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.
박윤웅(founder·Goryeo founding merit subject), 박유(said to be one of the 72 Sages of Dumun-dong), 박두세(author of Yoroweon Yahwagi), 박계숙·박취문(father and son authors of Bubuk Ilgi)
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The Ulsan Park clan (蔚山 朴氏) takes Ulsan as its seat and reveres Park Yun-ung (朴允雄), a founding merit subject of Goryeo, as founder; the remote ancestor is Silla's founder Park Hyeokgeose. The Goryeosa geography treatise records that, thanks to Park Yun-ung's great service to King Taejo, his home county Hagok was merged with Dongjin and Upung counties and raised to Heungnye-bu, the later Ulsan. Namuwiki adds that when King Gyeongsun submitted to Goryeo he brought Ulsan with him, for which Park Yun-ung was made Lord of Heungnyeo and given the posthumous title Jangmu-gong.
Namuwiki traces the Ulsan Park clan to Grand Prince Geumseong Park Gyo-sun, eldest son of Silla's King Gyeongae. As Gyeongae was the younger brother of King Gyeongmyeong, the tradition places this clan in the Gyeongae line, separate from the descendants of Gyeongmyeong's eight princes (Miryang, Goryeong, Hamyang and others). The Gyerim Park clan (second son, Grand Prince Gyerim Park Sun-hyeon) belongs to the same line. This is family tradition and not accepted by every Park seat.
According to Wikipedia, the clan counted 7,033 households and 22,427 people in 2000 and 26,571 people in the 2015 census. Members are concentrated in Ulsan, Ganghwa (Incheon), Yesan (South Chungcheong), Okcheon (North Chungcheong) and Gyeongsan (North Gyeongsang); kin are said to have lived in Gaeseong and Buryeong in the north, which cannot now be checked.
Wikipedia reports that the genealogy records the daughter of the 14th-generation Park Bo marrying Yun Bo of the Papyeong Yun clan, and that Yun Bo's granddaughter became the principal consort of King Chunghye of Goryeo; both the Ulsan Park and Papyeong Yun genealogies are said to note this. The queen's identity should be checked against other sources.
Around the founding of Joseon, Park Yu (朴愉) is said to have moved from Gaeseong to Gwangsi-myeon, Yesan, and lived in seclusion, praised as one of the 72 Sages of Dumun-dong. His daughter-in-law, of the Hyeonpung Kwak clan, kept caring for her father-in-law after her husband's death and was recognized as a filial wife in 1431 (King Sejong's 13th year); a memorial stele stands at Eunsa-ri. Park Du-se, author of the Sukjong-era tale Yoroweon Yahwagi, and the father and son Park Gye-suk and Park Chwi-mun, military-exam graduates who served in Hamgyeong Province and left the diary Bubuk Ilgi, are also known as Ulsan Parks.
No information on branches or a clan association address could be confirmed in public sources, so no branch cards are provided.
Known figures are the founder Park Yun-ung, Park Yu of Dumun-dong, the writer Park Du-se, and Park Gye-suk and Park Chwi-mun of the Bubuk Ilgi. Wikipedia also lists Park Hong (1534-1593) as an Ulsan Park, but his career could not be confirmed.
The 울산 박씨 clan association can be found in the Korean E-Jokbo Library clan-association directory.
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