Selina Forest

Selina (Lim su yeon)
 My family name’s History

There are about 300 kinds of family names in Korea. This is called ‘sung’

in Korea and all made using Chinese characters. Among them, Kim, Lee,

Park, Choi, Jung are the most in order, and Lim is the tenth. Almost all of

them are composed of single syllable, but sometimes there are two syllable

family names like DongBang or Sunwoo. My family name is Lim. My friends

pronounce it as im, it’s written in rim in English. This is because it is

pronounced as rim as a Chinese character. this chinese character written

as 林, it means tree. Most of Lim use this Chinese character. But having

the same gender is not a family. This is again divided into the ‘Bone-goan’,

which means that the original ancestor is the same. where first start my

family name is Buan that is Jeollabuk-do Buan. My original ancestor is Lim

gye mi. There is no many information about him, but it is assumed that

history of Lim is beginning from Chinese. Not many people of my ancestors

are historically very famous but I want to introduce a person named 'Lim

jong'. He was born in Chung-nam in 1554, and has a high position by

earnestly and hard work. He stepped out of position because of some

unexpected accident in the middle period. The reason was unknown.

However, he took great care of his mother and father, and he studied hard

all his life, so everyone around him respected him. After he was old, he

worked in the area where he lived. Later, his efforts to his village became

known then he received a reward from the king after he died. Though he

does not save the country or make great achievements, I respect his

righteous attitude and want to be inspired.

Thank you for reading. I’m sorry It’s hard to understanding