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Um | |
Hangul | 엄 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Eom |
McCune–Reischauer | Ŏm |
Um (Korean: 엄), also spelled as Uhm, Eom, Eum, Ohm or Om, is a relatively uncommon surname in Korea. It is written using the same character as the Chinese surname, Yan (嚴). It has only one clan, the Yeongwol Eom clan, based in Yeongwol, Gangwon Province.[1] According to the 2015 census in South Korea, there were 144,425 people carrying the Eom surname.[2][3]