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Okcheon Yuk clan

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Okcheon Yuk clan
CountryKorea
Current regionOkcheon County
FounderYuk Bo [ja]
Connected membersYuk Young-soo
Yook Sung-jae

Okcheon Yuk clan (Korean옥천 육씨; Hanja沃川 陸氏) is a Korean clan. Their Bon-gwan is in Okcheon County, North Chungcheong Province. According to research done in 2015, Okcheon Yuk clan members numbered 22,593. Their founder was Yuk Bo [ja], who was from Zhejiang. He was settled and naturalized in Silla from the Tang dynasty in 927.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Academy of Korean Studies 옥천육씨 沃川陸氏. Academy of Korean Studies.
  2. ^ Jin Guanglin [in Japanese] (2014). "A Comparison of the Korean and Japanese Approaches to Foreign Family Names" (PDF). Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia. 5: 20 – via Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia.
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