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Pungcheon Im clan

Korean clan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ12622110 ↗
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The Pungcheon Im clan (Korean: 풍천 임씨; Hanja: 豊川 任氏) is a Korean clan based in Kwail County, South Hwanghae Province. According to the research held in 2015, the number of Pungcheon Im clan’s member was 143881. Their founder was Im On who was from Shaoxing, China and came to Goryeo. Im On worked as Chao Feng Dai Fu (Hanja: 朝奉大夫) and General-in-Chief (Hanja: 大將軍) during Chungnyeol of Goryeo’s reign. Im Ju (Hanja: 任澍), 6 th descendant of Im On, was settled in Hwanghae Province and founded Pungcheon Im clan.

See also

Korean clan names of foreign origin

References

External links

Doosan Encyclopedia 외래귀화성씨 外來歸化姓氏. Doosan Encyclopedia.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pungcheon Im clan” as korean clan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pungcheon, clan and Korean can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as korean clan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12622110. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pungcheon Im clan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.