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List of Korean surnames
This is a list of Korean surnames, in Hangul alphabetical order. See Korean name § Surnames for an explanation.
The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim (Korean: 김; Hanja: 金), followed by Lee (이; 李) and Park (박; 朴). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population.
This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics (currently 2015) as the basis. No such data are available from North Korea.