Seongju Hwang clan () is a
Korean clas. Their
Bon-gwan is in
Seongju County,
North Gyeongsang Province. Hwang Rak (), a minister of the
Han dynasty, began the Hwang clan in Korea after he was cast ashore when traveling to
Vietnam in 28 CE and then naturalized in
Silla. Their founder was , who was the 17th descendant of , who themself was a descendant of Hwang Rak and worked as a government post as a great general () during the
Goryeo period
Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unificati ...
.
See also
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Korean clan names of foreign origin
References
External links
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Korean clans of Chinese origin