Pyeongtaek Im clan

Korean clan from Gyeonggi Province

gwangju Cho clan
Country	Korea
Current region	Pyeongtaek
Founder	Im Pal geup [ja]
Website	http://ptl.or.kr/

Pyeongtaek Im clan (Korean: 평택 임씨; Hanja: 平澤林氏) is one of the Korean clans. Their Bon-gwan is in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. According to the research held in 2015, the number of Pyeongtaek Im clan's member was 225872. Their founder was Im Pal geup [ja] who was a Hanlin Academy in Tang dynasty. He was naturalized in Silla as one of the Eight Scholars (Hanja: 八學士) in Tang dynasty.^[1]^[2]

Notable people

Im Nayeon
Lim Na-young
Nana (entertainer)
Im Se-mi
Im Soo-jung

References

^ Academy of Korean Studies 평택임씨 平澤林氏. Academy of Korean Studies.
^ 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: 18 – via Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia.