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Korean name From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Korean name consists of a  HYPERLINK /wiki/Family_name \o Family name family name followed by a  HYPERLINK /wiki/Given_name \o Given name given name, as used by the  HYPERLINK /wiki/Korean_people \o Korean people Korean people in both  HYPERLINK /wiki/North_Korea \o North Korea North Korea and  HYPERLINK /wiki/South_Korea \o South Korea South Korea. In the  HYPERLINK /wiki/Korean_language \o Korean language Korean language, ‘ireum’ or ‘seong-myeong’ usually refers to the family name (seong) and given name (ireum in a narrow sense) together. A long history of the use of family names has caused  HYPERLINK /wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process \o Galton–Watson process surname extinction. There are only about 250 Korean family names currently in use, and the three most common ( HYPERLINK /wiki/Kim_(Korean_name) \o Kim (Korean name) Kim,  HYPERLINK /wiki/Lee_(Korean_name) \o Lee (Korean name) Lee, and  HYPERLINK /wiki/Park_(Korean_name) \o Park (Korean name) Park) account for nearly half of the population. The family name is typically a single syllable, and the given name (in most cases) two syllables. There is no  HYPERLINK /wiki/Middle_name \o Middle name middle name in the Western sense. Many Koreans have their given names made of a  HYPERLINK /wiki/Generation_name \o Generation name generational name syllable and an individually distinct syllable, while this practice is declining in the younger generations. The generational name syllable is shared by siblings in  HYPERLINK /wiki/North_Korea \o North Korea North Korea, and by all members of the same generation of an extended family in  HYPERLINK /wiki/South_Korea \o South Korea South Korea. Married men and women usually keep their full personal names, and children inherit the father’s family name. Modern family names are subdivided into bon-gwan (clans), i.e. extended families which originate in the lineage system used in previ