<History of Kim>
‘Kim’ is the most common surname in the Korean Peninsula, accounting for nearly 22% of the population. Kim is written as "김" gim in Korean. ("김" solely by itself has no specific meaning unless specified by its underlying hanja or derived from context.) The hanja for Kim can also be transliterated as Hangul: "metal, iron, gold".
The Gyeongju Kims trace their descent from the ruling family of Silla. The founder of this clan is said to have been Kim Alji, an orphan adopted by King Talhae of Silla in the 1st century AD. Alji's seventh-generation descendant was the first member of the clan to take the throne, as King Michu of Silla in the year 262.
This clan is also extremely populous. In the South Korean census of 2000, more than 1.7 million citizens claimed to be Gyeongju Kims.
Daebogong gimalji is a figure of the Silla Dynasty and the founder of Gyeongju. Although the Japanese are said to have hatched out of the egg race, there is a myth that he is descended from the Chinese version of Kim iljae. The descendants of Kim iljae, munmuwang, are based on the memorial stone monument, giminmun Temple, and gimmunwang Temple Site.
Distribution of ancestral lines of the Kim surname. (1988)
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